The Gray Man
In the opening scene of The Gray Man (2022), Billy Bob Thornton’s CIA handler says to Ryan Gosling’s con and soon to be secret agent “I get it, you’re glib”,… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
I’m Dangerous Tonight
There’s more than a little that is problematic about Tobe Hooper’s made for television classic I’m Dangerous Tonight (1990). Not only does the film appropriate Aztec culture in a highly… Read more »
Angst
Angst (1983) is a largely fictionalized dramatization of Werner Kniesek’s mass murders in St. Pölten, Austria, during the early winter of 1980. The film is a collaboration between director Gerald… Read more »
Naked Weapon
Writer and producer Wong Jing followed up his cult classic Cat. III hit Naked Killer (1992) with the Tony Ching Siu-tung directed feature Naked Weapon (2002). As the title Naked… Read more »
Cuadecuc, vampir
A seminal work of avant-garde cinema, Pere Portabella’s Cuadecuc, vampir (1971) was shot in conjunction with Jesús Franco’s film Count Dracula (1970). Portabella shot his film as Franco shot his,… Read more »
Blind Beast
Aki Shima (Mako Midori), a model specializing in bondage portraits, is kidnapped by the blind “amateur” sculptor Michio Sofu (Eiji Funakoshi) and his mother (Noriko Sengoku) to serve as the… Read more »
Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud
Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (1995) was the last film that the renowned filmmaker Claude Sautet ever made. The film tells the story of a young woman, Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart), whose… Read more »
Forty Guns
Forty Guns (1957) opens with a stagecoach making its away down through the cinemascope frame. The coach, carrying a trio of Federally employed gunmen, ambles slowly across the vastness of… Read more »
All Summers End
All Summers End (2017) follows in the tradition of dramas like Sleepers (1996) wherein the protagonist comes of age while reckoning with the adult consequences of an immature prank or… Read more »
Mary Jane’s Not A Virgin Anymore
Sarah Jacobson’s lone feature Mary Jane’s Not A Virgin Anymore (1996) is a film drenched with the youthful exuberance for creativity. Every frame of this underground masterpiece conveys Jacobson’s love… Read more »
