Sunburn
In Richard C. Sarafian’s film Sunburn (1979) Charles Grodin plays an insurance investigator sent by William Daniels to look into the mysterious death of a rich industrialist. To pose as… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Bon Voyage!
1962 was the year for family vacation comedies that revolved around fathers with a martyr complex. Fox had Mr. Hobbs Takes A Vacation that year and Disney had Bon Voyage!…. Read more »
Corvette Summer
Ken (Mark Hamill) has just restored an apple red corvette for his senior project in shop class. But before he can get his diploma the car is stollen. Ken traces… Read more »
Summer Catch
Over the course of a career that’s spanned both film and television, Michael Tollin has developed two specialties: the sports drama and the teen movie. Perhaps best known as the… Read more »
Acht Stunden sind kein Tag
Acht Stunden sind kein Tag (1972-73) is Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s ode to the working class. The television mini-series produced for Westdeutscher Rundfunk follows a set of close knit, overlapping communities… Read more »
Invasion Of The Saucer Men
Invasion Of The Saucer Men (1957) is a youth oriented science fiction thriller produced by American International Pictures. The low budget of the film as well as its hokey dialogue… Read more »
Asteroid City
Wes Anderson continues to explore the synthesis between high camp visuals and dead pan existentialism with a flare for miniature photography and jukebox scores in the science fiction film Asteroid… Read more »
Glory
Glory (1989) dramatizes Col. Robert Gould Shaw’s (Matthew Broderick) command of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. The 54th was one of the first regiments composed… Read more »
Cop Land
Cop Land (1997) is writer/director James Mangold’s reimagining of the gritty New Hollywood cop film as a pulpy film noir. The plot is pure pulp, the execution all grit and… Read more »
Blue Summer
In the last week of summer before starting college best buds Gene (Bo White) and Tracy (Darcey Hollingsworth) take to the road in their decked out bus to enjoy some… Read more »
