A Haunting In Venice
Kenneth Branagh’s latest opus, A Haunting In Venice (2023), is his third outing with Agatha Christie following Murder On The Orient Express (2017) and Death On The Nile (2022). Branagh’s… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Dishonored
Josef von Sternberg’s pre-code spy romance Dishonored (1931) sees his muse Marlene Dietrich as a Mata Hari type of character spying on the Russians for Austria during WWI. Josef von… Read more »
Pain Hustlers
Pain Hustlers (2023), David Yates’ exposé of big pharmaceuticals, blatantly takes Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013) as its aesthetic blueprint. Produced for the streaming giant Netflix, Pain Hustlers… Read more »
Serving Sara
Serving Sara (2002) is a vulgar road comedy packed with casual misogyny and jokes that never quite stick the landing. Rightfully so, Serving Sara was panned by critics when it… Read more »
Alexander The Great
Before William Shatner assumed command of the Enterprise or Adam West donned a cape and cowl, they co-starred in the television pilot episode of a series called Alexander The Great… Read more »
Elvira’s MTV Halloween Party
It’s Halloween. Every year a certain demographic of people feel as nostalgic about Halloween as others do about Christmas. These “spooky” minded people watch horror movies for all of October… Read more »
TeenAlien
As Halloween draws near, Carl (Michael Dunn) and his friends decide to take Mr. Cranston’s (Vern Adix) offer to use his dilapidated mill property for a haunted house. In spite… Read more »
The Last Vampyre
From 1984 to 1994 Jeremy Brett was Sherlock Holmes. To this day no actor has so exactly personified the legendary detective as Brett did. So it’s no wonder that until… Read more »
Eyes Of Laura Mars
In 1972 Irvin Kershner directed Barbra Streisand in the film Up The Sandbox. The pair got along well enough that when Streisand’s then partner Jon Peters was putting together Eyes… Read more »
Beatriz
Beatriz (1976) is the second of two collaborations between director Gonzalo Suárez and international star Carmen Sevilla. Beatriz, like the earlier La loba y la paloma (1974), is a highly… Read more »
