Spider Baby
Virginia (Jill Banner) believes that she is part spider, hence the nickname “spider baby”. Her sister, Elizabeth (Beverly Washburn) may act like an innocent little girl, but she’s just as… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Ricochet
Ricochet (1991) is the product of two authors, each highly adept at the action genre. Steven E. de Souza, who wrote the screenplay for Ricochet, had already written such popular… Read more »
The Last Movie Stars
Ethan Hawke’s six-part documentary series on Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward The Last Movie Stars (2022) is framed around the transcripts that screenwriter Stewart Stern made of interviews he conducted… Read more »
Merry-Go-Round
Merry-Go-Round (1981) is famously a film made up of broken pieces. Originally filmmaker Jacques Rivette was going to make a follow-up to his films Duelle (1976) and Noroît (1976) but… Read more »
The Gilded Lily
Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) is just an average poor little working girl, a typist living alone in New York City. Every Thursday she sits on a bench in Central Park… Read more »
I Am Dragon
The Russian film I Am Dragon (2015) was clearly envisioned as a way of exploiting the success of the Twilight movies. However, I Am Dragon is based on a young… Read more »
Hard Boiled
To commemorate a year passing since Viva Video! closed its doors forever the Bryn Mawr Film Institute hosted a 35mm screening of John Woo’s Hard Boiled (1992). The event is… Read more »
La Orca
La Orca (1976) is an Italian crime film directed by Eriprando Visconti, the nephew of Luchino Visconti. Possibly inspired by the abduction of Patty Hearst in 1974, La Orca tells… Read more »
The ‘Burbs
Few American comedies in the second half of the twentieth century are as enjoyable as they are witty. Joe Dante’s classic satirical horror spoof The ‘Brubs (1989) is one of… Read more »
Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion
Shunya Itō’s film Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion (1972) is one of the greatest exploitation films ever made. Unlike so many films of this kind, Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion (and its… Read more »
