Scream Of The Bikini
Kiff Scholl’s Scream of the Bikini (2009) is a spoof of such sixties classics as The Million Eyes Of Su Muru (1967), Modesty Blaise (1966), and the films of Armando… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Córki dancingu
Córki dancingu (2015), or The Lure in English speaking countries, may just be the best fantasy film of the last decade, and it’s a musical. Agnieszka Smoczyńska reworks Hans Christian… Read more »
Snake Girl & The Silver-Haired Witch
Director Noriaki Yuasa was the creative force behind Daiei Film Company’s Gamera franchise, so a film adaptation of a manga about rival sisters may seem like an unorthodox choice for… Read more »
Battle Beyond The Stars
When I met John Sayles at a preview screening of his film Honeydripper (2007) I was struck by two things on my first impression. The first was the size and… Read more »
Fascination
We must find a way to eliminate the erotic element that is imposed upon us. But it is very difficult to make fantasy films here. It is a genre which… Read more »
Die Bergkatze
Pola Negri and Ernst Lubitsch knew each other from the Berlin stage before they ever made a film together. And, if one is to believe Norman Zierold, Lubitsch got the… Read more »
Operation Dumbo Drop
Even as a kid I knew that Operation Dumbo Drop (1995) wasn’t as good as Angels In The Outfield (1994), even though it did sport some superior product placement (… Read more »
Suddenly In The Dark
Suddenly In The Dark (1981) is a soapy Korean exploitation film that barrows from a cross-section of semi-related genres to tell its tale of a housewife on the verge of… Read more »
Thunder On The Hill
In Douglas Sirk’s melodramatic thriller Thunder On The Hill (1951) Godliness and faith are entirely the providence of women. What’s remarkably proto-feminist is that this enclave of the faithful is… Read more »
The Cat & The Canary
It’s always interesting to see a filmmaker depart from their modus operandi. I have always felt that The Alley Cats (1966) was Radley Metzger’s best film, not because it adhere’s… Read more »
