Spotlight
This review was first published during the initial release of this film. Spotlight (2015), despite all of the hype, is not the first film to deal with the sexual abuse… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
The Intruder
Charles Beaumont made a career of writing macabre stories whose slight removal from the reality we know and share gave them a urgency and horror that would influence a generation…. Read more »
Broken English
Zoe Cassavetes’ first feature film, Broken English (2007), is an analysis of what love means to her generation, and the perception of happiness that goes with it. Stylistically, the film… Read more »
The Show Off
In 1947 and 1948 Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer produced two low budget comedy vehicles for contract star Red Skelton. The first of these was The Show Off directed by Harry Beaumont and the… Read more »
Le Samourai
In 1967, Jean-Pierre Melville released his film Le Samourai. It is not a “New Wave” film, it is a classic genre film; it is a meticulous and objective study of behavior,… Read more »
Rancho Notorious
“Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.”-Fritz Lang Rancho Notorious (1952) is not unique in its inversion of the traditional female role in Westerns. Nicholas Ray’s Johnny… Read more »
In The Mood For Love
In The Mood For Love (2001) continues director Wong Kar-wai’s preoccupation with emotions unexpressed and love gone unconsummated. Of all of Wong Kar-wai’s feature films, In The Mood For Love best… Read more »
Dark Waters
Todd Haynes brings a sense of dread and helplessness to every image in Dark Waters (2019). The film is virtually a master class in pacing and composition, marking another stage… Read more »
Houdini
George Marshall is perhaps best remembered for directing the James Stewart comedies Destry Rides Again (1939) and Pot O’ Gold (1941). Marshall’s career as a film director spanned over fifty years, and made… Read more »
Bringing Out The Dead
As with Taxi Driver (1976), screenwriter Paul Schrader and director Martin Scorsese collaborated on the 1999 film Bringing Out The Dead. Similarly to Taxi Driver, Bringing Out The Dead follows its male lead as… Read more »
