Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale (1994) was Disney’s low-budget, theatrically released offering for that year’s Thanksgiving season. Squanto: A Warrior’s Tale was released roughly seven months before Disney’s animated feature Pocahontas… Read more »
At one point in The Object Of My Affection (1998) the Allison Janney character says “You know, I enjoy gay people”. This one line captures perfectly the attitudes of this… Read more »
Down & Dirty Duck (1974) was the labor of love of Charles Swenson. Swenson, an animator affiliated with Fred Wolf, wrote, directed and animated Down & Dirty Duck for Roger… Read more »
Stand Alone (1985) stars Charles Durning as WWII veteran Louis Thibadeau who witnesses a murder and becomes embroiled in an all out battle with the criminals. Released during the heyday… Read more »
After making The Pom Pom Girls (1976) at Crown International Pictures, Joseph Ruben took his next film, Joyride (1977), to American International. Ruben retained the services of leading man Robert… Read more »
Albert Brooks and Rob Reiner have been best friends since high school. They are both the sons of prominent comedians who followed in their fathers’ footsteps and went on to… Read more »
Film Noir is as celebrated and fetishized as it is misunderstood. The films considered Film Noir were only so labeled well after the fact in order to create a canon… Read more »
Craig Gillespie’s film of The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich, Dumb Money (2023), takes the familiar formal structure of his earlier film I, Tonya (2017), which itself is derived from… Read more »
Priscilla (2023) is Sofia Coppola’s Raging Bull (1980); a film that documents the all encompassing destructive nature of masculinity. But unlike Scorsese’s film, Priscilla is a story told from the… Read more »
For many people of my generation Shogun Assassin (1980) was one of the first Japanese films that we ever saw. Out at the local video store Shogun Assassin awaited us… Read more »
