Queen Bees
Queen Bees (2021) is a poorly scripted, haphazardly directed low budget film about the social and political structures within an old folks home. There’s a recurring theme throughout the film… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Galaxy Quest
I grew up in the nineties as a Star Trek fanatic (for the original series and the subsequent films with the original cast). I had toys of the Enterprise crew,… Read more »
Tough Guys Don’t Dance
Norman Mailer’s best novel is The Executioner’s Song. The author, whose voice can overpower his work, is almost entirely absent. The novel reads almost as a list of facts and… Read more »
Cash On Demand
Quentin Lawrence directed Cash On Demand (1961) and a couple of other films for Hammer Studios, making a specialty of thrillers throughout his long career. Cash On Demand benefits tremendously… Read more »
Decoder
Jürgen Muschalek’s (known as Muscha) directed the William S. Burroughs inspired cyberpunk film Decoder (1984) as a sort of reaction to the anti-Reagan protests that had broken out across West… Read more »
I, Jane Doe
John H. Auer was a producer and director at Republic Pictures for many years, churning out quick low budget films that lived on the success of bigger, more famous pictures…. Read more »
Naked Killer
Naked Killer (1992) is classic Wong Jing; it’s funny, campy, kinky, and wholly unpredictable. Naked Killer is a Category III Hong Kong thriller that lives in the same place as… Read more »
In The Heights
In The Heights (2021) is the first film that I have seen in a theater since The New Mutants (2020). Covid-19 kept us away from cinemas, and now that that… Read more »
Queens At Heart
An anonymously made film about four trans women, Queens At Heart (1967) survives today due to the efforts of the UCLA film archive. It’s an exploitative documentary that’s too sensitive… Read more »
Blanche
Walerian Borowczyk’s Blanche (1971) might be the most authentically medieval film that I have ever seen. Borowczyk’s production design is authentic and detailed, his framing intentionally recalls the illuminated manuscripts… Read more »
