Thunderheart
Thunderheart (1992) and its companion film Incident At Oglala (1992) were both directed by Michael Apted and fit in the vein of the filmmaker’s politically minded thrillers. While Apted’s motives… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Sailor Suit & Machine Gun
Sailor Suit & Machine Gun (1981) tells the story of Izumi Hoshi (Hiroko Yakushimaru), a high school student, who inherits the leadership role of an old yakuza gang after her… Read more »
Avalon
Two days late, but finally it is here and in hand: Magic, Myth & Mutilation: The Micro-Budget Cinema Of Michael J. Murphy. This comprehensive Blu-Ray boxed set from Indicator is… Read more »
Freebie & The Bean
As the Super Bowl draws near it’s time for the annual revisit of Freebie & The Bean (1974). Written by Robert Kaufman of The Monkees fame and directed by Richard… Read more »
Spiritual Love
Spiritual Love (1987) takes many of the horror-comedy elements of Mr. Vampire (1985) and fuses them with the romantic comedy genre. Like so many Hong Kong films, Spiritual Love is… Read more »
Luv
Director Clive Donner seems to have spent the silver sixties trying to tap into the zeitgeist. Films like What’s New Pussycat? (1965) and Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush… Read more »
Der Schwarze Abt
Producer Preben Philipsen wasn’t the first filmmaker to realize the big screen potential of Edgar Wallace’s mystery novels but he was the only one to make that enterprise an industry… Read more »
Prey
Prey (1977) is really a simple story. A humanoid alien being comes to earth in search of a fresh food supply for his race and becomes entangled in the tumultuous… Read more »
Battle In Outer Space
Ishirō Honda’s film Battle In Outer Space (1959) is a kind of conceptual sequel to his earlier film The Mysterians (1957). Both films were produced by Toho and feature themes… Read more »
Effie Gray
Screenwriter Emma Thompson filters all the elegance and melodrama that is Merchant Ivory Productions’ stock and trade through the emotional evocations of environment which defined Andrea Arnolds’ Wuthering Heights (2011)… Read more »
