Saint Jack
Saint Jack (1979) is the first of two films that director Peter Bogdanovich made with actor Ben Gazzara. And like their second collaboration, They All Laughed (1981), Saint Jack has… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
I Still Know What You Did Last Summer
If Kevin Williamson’s scripts for Scream (1996) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) operated as satirical critiques of white middle class privilege, then Trey Callaway’s script for… Read more »
Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea
The Italian title of the film known in english as Tragic Ceremony (1972), Estratto dagli archivi segreti della polizia di una capitale europea, is by far a more apt and… Read more »
Gebroken spiegels
Dutch auteur Marleen Gorris’ film Gebroken spiegels (1984) is a film of dual narratives. The majority of the film follows the lives of a group of sex workers employed at… Read more »
The Honeymoon Killers
Leonard Kastle’s only foray into filmmaking, The Honeymoon Killers (1970), is often labeled a cult classic though through its influence, tenacity, and cultural significance it deserves to be heralded as… Read more »
1990: I guerrieri del Bronx
1990: I guerrieri del Bronx (1982) is a campy fusion of the aesthetics and narratives of The Warriors (1979) with Escape From New York (1981). 1990: I guerrieri del Bronx… Read more »
The Paperboy
When The Paperboy (2012) first came out it felt like everyone, from the people I knew to the critics I read, hated the picture. I was alone among my cinephile… Read more »
El Bosque del Lobo
Pedro Olea’s El Bosque del Lobo (1970) follows the itinerant peddler Benito Freire (José Luis López Vázquez) as he criss-crosses his way through the Spanish countryside at the dawn of… Read more »
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Tobe Hooper’s film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is one of the most important and influential films that has ever been made. It is impossible to measure the cultural… Read more »
Fire & Ice
Ralph Bakshi’s film Fire & Ice (1983) came out at the height of popularity for the fantasy film genre. Bakshi, realizing the limitations of special effects of the day, seized… Read more »
