Get A Job
It took four years after principal photography wrapped on Get A Job (2016) for the film to get a release. This delay was caused by issues between distributors and rights… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
The Three Swordsmen
Directed by Taylor Wong, The Three Swordsmen (1994) is a modestly budgeted wuxia comedy. The Three Swordsmen follows the adventures of Siu Sam-siu (Andy Lau) who has tied with Ming… Read more »
Brannigan
After he failed to secure the lead role in Dirty Harry (1971), John Wayne made McQ (1974) then he went on to do another cop picture, Brannigan (1975). Brannigan takes… Read more »
Wild Things
Filmmaker John McNaughton established himself with the highly influential film Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer (1986) which he co-wrote and directed. Over the course of his career McNaughton proved… Read more »
At Close Range
Although shot in Tennessee, At Close Range (1986) is a film that feels authentically Pennsylvanian. So many of the interior spaces look like the spaces that I grew up in…. Read more »
Antitrust
Imagine that your romantic partner is a criminal blackmailed into controlling you by a Steve Jobs-like computer genius trying to recruit you. Imagine that this so-called computer genius is a… Read more »
Executive Action
Eleven years after collaborating on the fantastic Western film Lonely Are The Brave (1962), director David Miller and writer Dalton Trumbo made Executive Action (1973). As the Watergate scandal and… Read more »
Working Girl
Happy Labor Day! Mike Nichols’ romantic comedy Working Girl (1988) re-imagines the Preston Sturges comedies of the forties for the late eighties; trading in Depression era fantasies of the American… Read more »
Blue Steel
Kathryn Bigelow introduces her lead character, Officer Meg Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis), in the pre-credit sequence of Blue Steel (1990). In this sequence Officer Turner is reprimanded for not being… Read more »
Olivia
After completing a pair of films with Andy Warhol, Ulli Lommel embarked on his most prolific and popular phase of his career as a director. This period of Lommel’s career… Read more »
