Girl In The Picture
The picture that filmmaker Skye Borgman draws in her true crime documentary Girl In The Picture (2022) is one of a misogynist system that utterly fails to protect women. Social… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Voyage Of The Rock Aliens
Part B-Movie spoof, part MTV music video and all camp, Voyage Of The Rock Aliens (1984) is one of the great cult classics of the eighties. Featuring early green screen… Read more »
Taste Of Fear
Hammer Productions’ Taste Of Fear (1961) sees director Seth Holt working at the height of his powers. Taste Of Fear, like Holt’s best films for Hammer, is a thriller rather… Read more »
Game Show Models
Filmmaker David N. Gottlieb famously envisioned Game Show Models (1976) as a vastly different kind of film. Gottlieb’s original film was titled The Seventh Dwarf (who is identified as Happy… Read more »
Leave Her To Heaven
Leave Her To Heaven (1945) is not unlike The Strange Woman (1946) and Desert Fury (1947); a “weepie” or woman’s picture told with traditionally film noir conventions. The enduring popularity… Read more »
Unknown Pleasures
Jia Zhangke’s third feature film Unknown Pleasures (2002) is an intimate portrait of poverty and the growing pains of a China in transition. Set in Datong, a once thriving industrial… Read more »
Humanoids From Atlantis
You really have to admire J.R. Bookwalter’s resolve. He had a script about an aquatic monster but had to shoot in March, prompting him to throw out the screenplay and… Read more »
Humanoids From The Deep
Though primarily a schlocky bit of monster mayhem, Humanoids From The Deep is a classic example of art versus commerce. Director Barbara Peeters originally shot a much more macabre and… Read more »
Boxer
Sometimes when a director is renowned for a specific style it’s almost more interesting to see that filmmaker tackle a more mainstream or traditional project. When I first discovered the… Read more »
The Stunt Man
Richard Rush’s award winning dark comedy The Stunt Man (1980) blurs the boundaries between reality and the imagination of filmmaking within the context of adapting Paul Brodeur’s novel. The plot,… Read more »
