Gas Pump Girls
When Uncle Joe (Huntz Hall) begins losing business to a big corporate owned filling station across the street from his own and has a heart attack, his favorite niece June… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Impulse
The new Blu-Ray of William Grefé’s Impulse (1974) from Grindhouse Releasing is by all means superb. In addition to a gorgeous restoration of Impulse itself the set also includes two… Read more »
Madeleine, anatomia di un incubo
Madeleine, anatomia di un incubo (1974) is a film full of hallucinatory images, vibrant colors, and pounding synth music that takes the tropes of Gothic literature and injects them into… Read more »
Las Flores Del Vicio
Las Flores Del Vicio (1979) follows a group of bourgeois ex-patriots residing in a remote coastal village in Spain who take young lovers from a traveling band of wanderers. Las… Read more »
Career Opportunities
The only thing people remember about Career Opportunities (1991) is the image of Jennifer Connelly riding a mechanized horse while wearing a revealing top. For a generation, Connelly became a… Read more »
Fanboys
Usually films about characters who belong to the cult-like fanbase of some film property speak to me in some subtle, very personal way. Even when I know the movie isn’t… Read more »
The Pirates Of Blood River
At a remote Huguenot settlement on an island in the Caribbean, Jonathan Standing (Kerwin Mathews) is railroaded and imprisoned for adultery. Standing manages to escape the penal colony only to… Read more »
Hudson Hawk
When Hudson Hawk (1991) nobody liked it. It seemed that director Michael Lehmann had squandered all of the success of Heathers (1989) on a genre pastiche that nobody wanted. Hudson… Read more »
The People
Executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola, The People (1972) is a made for television film based on “The People” stories by Zenna Henderson. The People reunites Kim Darby with William… Read more »
Madman
Of the films produced in the early eighties inspired by the “Cropsey” legend, Madman (1981) is the most unique and, in many ways, the most effective. The film opens on… Read more »
