Povestea dragostei (1977) is a “photo-mix” Romanian fairytale film by Ion Popescu-Gopo that freely adapts Ion Creangă’s classic tale Povestea porcului. Popescu-Gopo’s lifelong interest in the early animated features produced… Read more »
Matt Johnson’s film BlackBerry (2023) takes its dramatic and aesthetic cues from The Social Network (2010) to tell the story of founders Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel), Doug Fregin (director Matt… Read more »
Auteur Kinji Fukasaku is the quintessential director of yakuza films. Fukasaku helmed films across genres, but it is his work in the yakuza film that he is best known for… Read more »
It’s a shame that critics and audiences have wrongfully assumed that Observe & Report (2009) is either Seth Rogen’s version of Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) or some Judd Apatow… Read more »
The same year that Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) came out Walt Disney Studios unleashed their own science fiction adventure film about an extra-terrestrial visitor called The Cat… Read more »
If you grew up watching Drop Dead Fred (1991) you got lost in the fantasy hijinks of the singular Rik Mayall totally unaware of the very real ramifications of Phoebe… Read more »
Kazuyuki Izutsu’s The Second Is A Christian (1985) is a yakuza comedy starring the legendary Etsuko Shihomi as Sister Kyoko; a Catholic nun who runs a small orphanage in Kobe…. Read more »
Escalating costs and the well publicized strife between director and crew poisoned the public reception of Sorcerer (1977). It took years for Sorcerer to find its audience and carve a… Read more »
A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge (1985) is still as controversial today as it was when it was released just a year after Wes Craven’s original film that… Read more »
Any time you catch Kevin Corrigan just seemingly popping up in something is an utter delight. The guy’s a terrific actor and completely underrated. I remember seeing Pineapple Express (2008)… Read more »
