Project A
If the most innovative and enjoyable aspect of Jackie Chan’s films is his fusion of silent era slapstick with martial arts fight choreography then it doesn’t get more fun than… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Investigating Sex
Alan Rudolph, like the character Edgar Faldo (Dermot Mulroney), attempts to rectify the abstract with the representational in his film Investigating Sex (2001). Based on Recherches sur la sexualite archives… Read more »
The Cat
The Cat (1992) is Lam Ngai Kai’s last film. In a way it is a fitting film to end the director’s career. All the hallmarks of Lam Ngai Kai’s inimitable… Read more »
Jurassic World Dominion
Supposedly the franchise that began with the groundbreaking cultural touchstone Jurassic Park (1993) has reached its conclusion with Jurassic World Dominion (2022). In this final chapter the leads of the… Read more »
Vamps
Amy Heckerling’s Vamps (2012) is a horror-comedy that looks on the bright side of its inherent genre tropes. Vamps looks at Larraz’s Vampyres (1974) and Rollin’s Perdues dans New York… Read more »
I Start Counting
David Greene’s belatedly en vogue film I Start Counting (1969) isn’t so much a coming of age picture as it is a meditation on the role that imagination and fantasy… Read more »
Ladies They Talk About
Nan Taylor (Barbara Stanwyck) is beautiful, sexy, and a hard as nails criminal who doesn’t suffer fools lightly. She gets pinched pulling a bank job with her pal Lefty (Harold… Read more »
Dirty O’Neil
Dirty O’Neil (1974) is a film of dramatic tonal shifts. While these variations in tone are all firmly planted in the sphere of the exploitation film it doesn’t diminish their… Read more »
Privilege
Privilege (1967) was Peter Watkins final film made entirely in England. After making the films Culloden (1964) and The War Game (1965) for the BBC, Watkins was given the chance… Read more »
Summer Days, Summer Nights
Edward Burns’ film Summer Days, Summer Nights (2021) follows the tradition of Dazed & Confused (1993), American Graffiti (1973), The Last Days Of Disco (1998), and Adventureland (2009). Burns’ film… Read more »
