Christmas In My Hometown
The Christmas special has long been an integral part of the American holiday season. These schmaltzy, formulaic television movies peddle in an overt sentimentality for an America that used to… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
The Man Who Came To Dinner
The Man Who Came To Dinner (1944) sees Monty Woolley reprising the title role that he originated on Broadway in the play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. Woolley… Read more »
La guerre des tuques
The French-Canadian film La guerre des tuques (1984) follows a bunch of kids in rural Quebec who decide to spend their Christmas break engaging in war games. Armed with wooden… Read more »
Reindeer Games
The latter films of director John Frankenheimer can be split between great films like 52 Pick-Up (1986) or Ronin (1998) and lesser films in which the director had little at… Read more »
The French Connection
William Friedkin’s The French Connection (1971) is one of those films that completely revolutionized its genre and whose influence is felt even today. Entertainments that range from HBO’s The Wire… Read more »
Ruby
John Mackenzie’s film Ruby (1992) followed hot on the heels of Oliver Stone’s JFK (1991) but was even more liberal with the facts than Stone’s acclaimed picture. Ruby takes the… Read more »
Out Of The Past
After building a reputation with a series of artful B-Movies, Jacques Tourneur was given a lavish budget by RKO to make the iconic Film Noir picture Out Of The Past… Read more »
24 Hours: The World Of John & Yoko
Shot over the course of five consecutive days, 24 Hours: The World Of John & Yoko (1969) is a thirty minute documentary film made for the BBC. The film only… Read more »
Gniazdo
Gniazdo (1974) opens on the eve of the decisive Battle of Cedynia in June, 972. Mieszko I (Wojciech Pszoniak) is stricken by a terrible fever. Delusional, Mieszko I hallucinates his… Read more »
Of Freaks & Men
Russian filmmaker Aleksei Balabanov is best known for his crime film Brother (1997), however many of Balabanov’s early features draw on the traditions of surrealism as well as the Theatre… Read more »
