40 Pounds Of Trouble
40 Pounds Of Trouble (1962) was producer and star Tony Curtis’ passion project. Beginning in 1962 Curtis’ career began to wane and it was believed that 40 Pounds Of Trouble… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
La polizia brancola nel buio
La polizia brancola nel buio (1975) opens like any second-rate giallo with a woman fleeing some unknown killer across the Italian countryside as her clothes fall off of her body…. Read more »
My Favorite Wife
After having been shipwrecked for seven years Ellen Arden’s (Irene Dunne) husband Nick Arden (Gary Grant) has had her declared legally dead so that he can marry Miss Bianca Bates… Read more »
The Molly Maguires
When I was in middle school and the curriculum turned towards our local Rust Belt history then it would be likely that the teacher would show The Molly Maguires (1970)…. Read more »
Call Me Tonight
The folks over at Bleeding Skull! have described the OVA Call Me Tonight (1986) as the “cute” Urotsukidōji (1989), and they aren’t wrong. But calling any thing “cute” in comparison… Read more »
La decima vittima
In the twenty-first century war and crime have been erased from society by the globally instituted “big hunt”. Mankind’s primitive, violent impulses are given expression in a game that is… Read more »
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) adopts its subjects modus operandi and applies it to the biopic. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story dismantles the tropes and narrative beats of films… Read more »
Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal
Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal (1971) is loosely based on the murder of Honorah Parker by her daughter Pauline and her daughter’s friend Anne Perry in 1954. While… Read more »
Glissements progressifs du plaisir
Glissements progressifs du plaisir (1974) opens with a police lieutenant (Jean-Louis Trintignant) arriving at a crime scene to interview a young woman (Anicée Alvina) suspected of murder. When the policeman… Read more »
Murder At The Vanities
Murder At The Vanities (1934) is one of the best known pre-code Hollywood films today, having been featured in the Universal Backlot Series DVD boxed set Pre-Code Hollywood Collection from… Read more »
