Robot Jox
Today Robot Jox (1989) is best known as the progenitor of Pacific Rim (2013) that features a robot suit with a chainsaw penis. Guillermo del Toro borrowed a lot from… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
House Of Usher
House Of Usher (1960) is the film that began Roger Corman’s cycle of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations starring Vincent Price. House Of Usher and the Poe adaptations that followed it… Read more »
In The Cut
Jane Campion’s In The Cut (2003) is an erotic thriller drenched in sepia tones that re-imagines its idiom as a distinctly feminine experience. The rampant misogyny that often dominates the… Read more »
Joy
Joy (Sharon Mitchell in her debut) is a high school girl on summer break who is saving herself until she gets married. That is until she is sexually assaulted by… Read more »
Black Cat II
In Black Cat II (1992) the identity crisis is over and the battle for physical and emotional autonomy is lost. Jade Leung’s Black Cat is literally a commodity; a weapon… Read more »
Black Cat
Jade Leung stars in Black Cat (1991), an unabashed imitation of Luc Besson’s international hit La Femme Nikita (1990). The film follows Jade Leung as she completes her “Black Cat”… Read more »
Valentine
Valentine (2001) may be based upon a novel, but its style and execution is clearly building off of Kevin Williamson’s hits in the slasher genre. For director Jamie Blanks Valentine… Read more »
White Star
White Star (1983) finds filmmaker Roland Klick (best known for the films Supermarkt and Deadlock) turning a critical eye towards the music promotion business. Klick satirizes the crass publicity surrounding… Read more »
Westward The Women
Westward The Women (1951) follows Buck Wyatt (Robert Taylor) as he leads a group of one-hundred and forty women (including Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson and Julie Bishop) from Chicago to… Read more »
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
In many ways Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) is the quintessential Steven Spielberg film. It dares to dream that there is magic in the suburbs. It codifies Eastern… Read more »
