From Dusk Till Dawn
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) marks the first collaboration between writer/actor Quentin Tarantino and director Robert Rodriguez. The film is a collection of the filmmakers’ fetishes, preoccupations, and hang-ups that… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
Dinky (Winona Ryder) is a teenaged outcast living in a small Ohio town. When celebrity Roxy Carmicheal is scheduled to return for a dedication Dinky believes it’s her chance to… Read more »
Last Of The Persimmons
Pat O’Neill’s Last Of The Persimmons (1972) combines original 16mm footage with found footage and sets it to the T.Rex song “Is It Love?”. In just over four minutes O’Neill… Read more »
Harmonica
Harmonica (1971) was Larry Gottheim’s first single reel long-take film with a soundtrack. Gottheim, operating the camera, filmed Shelley Berde in the back seat of a car as they drove… Read more »
Teenage Tupelo
“Say, are you girls doing anything after you beat the shit out of me?” On October 9th, 1962, teenage drop out D’Lana (D’Lana Tunnell) ditches her boyfriend and joins a… Read more »
4-Eyes
Psychedelic provocateur Keiichi Tanaami turned his attention towards making video art in the seventies. These videos contained images that drew on Pop Art for their color and dynamic compositions. These… Read more »
Longlegs
It’s been impossible to escape the hype around writer and director Osgood Perkins’ film Longlegs (2024). The film has been heralded as the new Silence Of The Lambs (1991) or… Read more »
Batman: The Long Halloween
The comic book Batman: The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale has been an essential text to every Batman movie made this century. Christopher Nolan and Matt Reeves… Read more »
Nowhere Boy
Nowhere Boy (2009) is a biographical drama focused on John Lennon’s adolescence in the late fifties. Where most films have been primarily invested in the formation of The Beatles, Nowhere… Read more »
Never A Dull Moment
Disney’s Never A Dull Moment (1968) finds Dick Van Dyke as a struggling actor who is mistaken by a mob boss (Edward G. Robinson) for a hired killer who is… Read more »
