Fools Rush In
Andy Tennant has made a career out of directing safe, family friendly romantic comedies. Fools Rush In (1997), his second feature film, establishes the generic tropes and television oriented sensibility… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Valkoinen peura
Erik Blomberg was a producer, a cinematographer and editor for years before he ever wrote and directed Valkoinen peura (1953). Blomberg knew the filmmaking craft, backwards and forwards, and was… Read more »
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort
Reality and dreams are interchangeable in this landscape where even news of a violent murder takes on a kind of poetic realism. Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967) is literally Demy’s… Read more »
Robotrix
Part homage to fifties robot movies, part softcore erotic film and one hundred percent campy adventure flick; Jamie Luk Kin-ming’s Robotrix (1991) is one of a kind, even by Hong… Read more »
My Childhood
There’s something about 16mm high contrast black and white film stock that is at once both tactile and dream-like. One can see this duality exploited obviously in David Lynch’s Eraserhead… Read more »
Knives Out
When I saw Rian Johnson’s Knives Out (2019) at my local Cinemark I disliked it. Seeing Knives Out two years later I like it even less. Johnson’s film is as… Read more »
La dama rossa uccide sette volte
Filmmaker Emilio Miraglia always infused his forays into giallo with Gothic trappings and tropes. La dama rossa uccide sette volte (1972) is no different, and may just be Miraglia’s most… Read more »
Jeunes filles impudiques
Jeunes filles impudiques (1973), released in english as Schoolgirl Hitchhikers, was Jean Rollin’s first forray into exclusively erotic material. Though most of his films are horror pictures with erotic soft-core… Read more »
Devil Fetus
Lau Hung-chuen’s Devil Fetus (1983) is a spectacularly gross and bonkers little film. The budget constraints show but the analogue special effects still pack a punch. Lau Hung-chuen is pretty… Read more »
The Batwoman
When Dr. Eric Williams (Roberto Cañedo) and his assistant Igor (Carlos Suárez) begin to realize their evil scheme of creating hundreds of fish-men with which to rule the oceans of… Read more »
