Fantastic Mr. Fox
From Bottle Rocket (1996) to The Darjeeling Limited (2007), filmmaker Wes Anderson was moving his aesthetic closer and closer to animation. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) is the first time that… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
What Have You Done To Solange?
With the tragic overturning of Roe v. Wade the giallo shocker What Have You Done To Solange? (1972) has a new found relevancy. Though a sensationalist crime thriller, What Have… Read more »
The Balloon
The Balloon (1956) was made at the height of Yuzo Kawashima’s powers and during his most prolific period while working at Nikkatsu studio. The Balloon has all the hallmarks of… Read more »
L’exécutrice
L’exécutrice (1986) sees sexploitation superstar Brigitte Lahaie redefining audiences’ expectations by turning in a powerful and nuanced dramatic performance. To the uninitiated, Lahaie is best known for her appearance in… Read more »
Sister Street Fighter
Sister Street Fighter (1974) is the first in a series of films by Toei Company launched as a spin-off of the popular Street Fighter franchise starring Sonny Chiba. This first… Read more »
Rock & Rule
In the future, after a nuclear holocaust, anthropomorphic creatures have come to dominate the urban centers of the world. In the waste land left behind by humanity’s final wars, Mok… Read more »
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Cary Grant and Myrna Loy re-teamed for Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), a family comedy-drama about the anxieties of the post-war economic boom. Directing is none other than… Read more »
‘Doc’
Frank Perry’s revisionist western ‘Doc’ (1971) is about as unromantic a western as one could imagine. For plot, screenwriter Pete Hamill looks to the most famous gunfight in the history… Read more »
In Search Of Tomorrow
To the uninitiated or would-be cinephile there’s possibly something indispensable about David A. Weiner’s epic surveys of movies in the eighties. Weiner’s most recent addition to his growing catalogue is… Read more »
Frankenhooker
Frankenhooker (1990) is one of the seminal genre films of the nineties. It’s a low budget horror-comedy riff on Mary Shelley’s novel that has become one of the most popular… Read more »
