From The Hip
When I was in college I used to watch a lot of Ally McBeal (1997-2002) while waiting for video files to either export or compress. I loved Ally McBeal. I… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
The Sword & The Sorcerer
Albert Pyun’s film The Sword & The Sorcerer (1982) came out during the heyday of the sword and sorcery genre. The film pits a lone hero with a three bladed… Read more »
Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted (1999) was something of a favorite film among my peers in high school. It caught the zeitgeist for a generation of young women just coming-of-age. As a film… Read more »
The Three Musketeers
I was just a kid the first time that I saw Richard Lester’s The Three Musketeers (1973). My mother was a really big fan of Lester’s two Musketeers films. She… Read more »
Q
Larry Cohen’s notorious kaiju flick Q (1982) follows a smalltime hood and a police investigation into a series of ritual murders until both plots collide and the deity of Quetzalcōātl… Read more »
The Image Revolution
When I was growing up I loved X-Men. It was Jim Lee’s art that defined those characters in X-Men for me. I wasn’t aware of who Jim Lee was by… Read more »
The World Of Hammer
The World Of Hammer (1994) was a thirteen part series of twenty-five minute episodes narrated by Oliver Reed. Each episode in the series looked at a theme in Hammer Films… Read more »
American Graffiti
Unlike George Lucas’ soulless science fiction features American Graffiti (1973) is a film of warmth and compassion. It’s an episodic narrative that uses nostalgia to frame carefully observed truths regarding… Read more »
The Hunt For Red October
John McTiernan’s Tom Clancy adaptation The Hunt For Red October (1990) is a “dad movie”. It’s the kind of film that you watch with your dad when you’re out sick… Read more »
Supermarkt
Roland Klick’s Supermarkt (1974) is a frantic portrait of life on the fringes of Hamburg. Klick’s film interrogates the political responsibility of the middle class for those outside the societal… Read more »
