Taking Care Of Business
Gone Fishin’ (1997) is one of the most insane buddy movies I’ve ever seen. Jill Mazursky’s scripting is a work of comic genius run amok like a manic Jerry Lewis… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Céline et Julie vont en bateau
Céline et Julie vont en bateau (1974) just got released by the Criterion Collection this Tuesday. I got my copy in the mail the same day, upgrading from my BFI… Read more »
8 Million Ways To Die
8 Million Ways To Die (1986) could have been one of Hal Ashby’s greatest films, but he was fired before post-production could begin. Ashby’s great talent was to shoot his… Read more »
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife
For many Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938) is lesser Ernst Lubitsch. Sure Lubitsch and star Claudette Colbert could never top the “Jazz Up Your Lingerie” sequence in The Smiling Lieutenant (1931),… Read more »
Deathsport
Deathsport (1978) is a prime example of the type of film that Roger Corman’s New World Pictures was churning out in the late seventies. The film is packed to the… Read more »
Caravaggio
A few years ago I was at Comic Con. I shopped, I saw friends and I took in a few panels. One of these panels was with Sean Bean. When… Read more »
Above Us Only Sky
What does Michael Epstein’s Above Us Only Sky (2019) give us Lennon fans? We get to see a lot of the same Steve Gebhardt footage that went into Gimme Some… Read more »
Windtalkers
Windtalkers (2002) follows Sgt. Enders (Nicolas Cage) on his mission to protect Navajo code-talker Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) during the taking of Saipan during WWII. Yahzee’s deep spirituality transforms Enders… Read more »
The Happiest Millionaire
Adapted from My Philadelphia Father by Cordelia Biddle, The Happiest Millionaire (1967) follows the misadventures of Fred MacMurray and Greer Garson as they navigate their daughter Cordelia’s (played by Lesley… Read more »
The Viking Queen
The Viking Queen (1967) is a fantasy film by Hammer Studios and directed by Don Chaffey of Jason and the Argonauts (1963) fame. This film tells the muddled story of… Read more »
