Ashanti
Ashanti (1979) revisits many of the same themes of racism and the legacy of slavery as Richard Fleischer’s earlier film Mandingo (1975). Both films are highly sensationalist renderings of a… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Boys & Girls
From the director of Cinderella (1997) and She’s All That (1999), Robert Iscove, came the painfully awkward romantic comedy Boys & Girls (2000). Boys & Girls came out at the… Read more »
Mission: Impossible
With Mission: Impossible-Dead Reckoning Part I (2023) out everyone is talking about Tom Cruise and his stunts. At some point after John Woo’s ill-fated outing in the franchise Tom Cruise… Read more »
Bang The Drum Slowly
Bang The Drum Slowly (1973) is another entry in the cycle of films made in the first half of the seventies that analyzed and romanticized male friendships. Like Scarecrow (1973),… Read more »
Dr. Caligari
Dr. Caligari (1989) picks up narratively and aesthetically where Robert Wiene’s masterpiece of silent cinema, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920), left off. The expressionistic stylization of Wiene’s film that… Read more »
Rote Sonne
Rote Sonne (1970) is director Rudolf Thome’s reply to Godard’s romanticized films of political radicalism made from the mid-sixties until late in ’68. Thome’s purposefully lagubrious tone and ambling pacing… Read more »
Heartbreakers
Since its initial theatrical release Heartbreakers (2001) has drifted into relative obscurity. Heartbreakers, despite its lack luster promotional art, is an excellent comedy that was way ahead of its time…. Read more »
Please Don’t Touch Me!
Written and directed by Ron Ormond (though credited to his real name Vittorio Di Naro) and produced by Ormond’s wife June, Please Don’t Touch Me! (1963) is a sensationalist melodrama… Read more »
Deadly Hero
Deadly Hero (1975) is the antithesis of Dirty Harry (1971); taking shots at the systemic racism, misogyny, corruption and extreme brutality of the police. Deadly Hero is a small independent… Read more »
Indiana Jones & The Dial Of Destiny
It took fifteen years but Harrison Ford has finally gotten his fifth and final installment in the Indiana Jones franchise, Indiana Jones & The Dial Of Destiny (2023). It’s a… Read more »
