Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields (2022) is a Netflix original documentary series about the Calder Road murders. In the mid-eighties Clyde Hedricks murdered several young women and dumped their… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
The Lady Professional
Best known for the films Hex (1980) and The Boxer’s Omen (1983), maverick auteur Kuei Chih-Hung began his career directing action films for Shaw Brothers, and The Lady Professional (1971)… Read more »
Persuasion
Persuasion (2022) doesn’t so much adapt Jane Austen’s novel as lift its basic plot as the framework for a synthesis of those two movies which have come to represent Austen’s… Read more »
Drums Along The Mohawk
John Ford’s technicolor frontier epic Drums Along The Mohawk (1939) offered Depression era audiences a sense of relief and inspiration. The film, set in New York during the Revolutionary War,… Read more »
Supergirl
In the years since its first release, Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin (1997) has gradually undergone a major re-evaluation. Much maligned in its day, Batman & Robin has become a… Read more »
Big Bad Mama
Angie Dickinson had been playing tough broads for most of her career; from Rio Bravo (1959) and The Killers (1964) to Point Blank (1967). For producer Roger Corman, Angie Dickinson… Read more »
Ishtar
By now the reputation of Ishtar (1987) is more widely known than the film is seen. The narrative of that reputation has changed over the intervening decades from one of… Read more »
Le soldatesse
Valerio Zurlini’s WWII epic Le soldatesse (1965) follows Lt. Martino (Tomas Milian) as he escorts a truck carrying prostitutes (including the iconic Marie Laforêt, Anna Karina, and Valeria Moriconi) from… Read more »
17 Again
It’s true that the most unbelievable thing in a film about a man who turns into his high school self is that when Matthew Perry was 17 he looked like… Read more »
The Pom Pom Girls
It’s the start of a new school year at Rosedale High School in sunny California and football season is in full swing. The Pom Pom Girls (1976) follows Johnnie (Michael… Read more »
