The Mutilator
When Ed (Matt Mitler) was a little boy he accidentally shot and murdered his mother while cleaning one of his father’s (Jack Chatham) rifles. Now in law school, Ed’s father… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Den hvide slavehandels sidste offer
There is nothing subtle about Den hvide slavehandels sidste offer (1911). August Blom’s film Den hvide slavehandels sidste offer is meant to shock viewers into action with its ribald sensationalism…. Read more »
Confess, Fletch
Fletch (1985) and Fletch Lives (1989), starring Chevy Chase, were staples of video stores and daytime cable programming when I was growing up. The Chase led films adapted Gregory Mcdonald’s… Read more »
Never Compromise
After years of living in poverty and struggling to survive, best friends Bill (Francis Ng Chun-Yu) and Shing (Simon Lui Yue-Yeung) manage to sneak into Hong Kong. But when a… Read more »
Sleep, My Love
Wealthy Manhattan socialite Alison Courtland (Claudette Colbert) wakes on a train with no recollection of how she got there. This isn’t the first such episode for Mrs. Courtland, or so… Read more »
A Woman For All Men
Personally, I love finding a film that stars beloved character actors in the leading roles. That’s the primary reason I was drawn to Arthur Marks’ film A Woman For All… Read more »
Lighting Over Braddock: A Rust Bowl Fantasy
I grew up when the last steel mills in the Pittsburgh area were closing down. With a majority of my extended family living in Pittsburgh it became a topic that… Read more »
Exotica
If you asked me what my favorite Atom Egoyan film was while I was attending film school I would have said Family Viewing (1987). At the time I was very… Read more »
Matka Joanna od Aniołów
Set in the seventeenth century, Matka Joanna od Aniołów (1961) tells the story of a convent in rural Poland overrun with demonic possessions. The Reverend Mother Joan of the Angels… Read more »
Django & Django
During the opening of Django & Django (2021) Quentin Tarantino reveals that after completing his film Inglourious Basterds (2009) he contemplated writing a book on the westerns of Sergio Corbucci…. Read more »
