Vicious Lips
One of my favorite sub-genres of the eighties is the science fiction musical. Vicious Lips (1986) is a classic installment along with Forbidden Zone (1980), The Return Of Captain Invincible… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Morgiana
A Gothic tale of poison and plots, Morgiana (1972) is another dark rumination on the failings of the human spirit by provocateur Juraj Herz. Based on a work by Russian… Read more »
Lost & Delirious
A modest hit at the Sundance Film Festival, Lost & Delirious (2001) is a Canadian coming of age picture that features a handful of stars before they became famous. Directed… Read more »
Yes, Madam
Asprin (Mang Hoi) and Strepsil (John Shum) have just robbed a corpse without knowing it. It’s also escaped them that, among their loot, is a valuable microfilm that the evil… Read more »
Holiday
In Holiday (1938) a working class Cary Grant gets engaged to a wealthy socialite played by Doris Nolan only to gradually realize that their ideologies are odds. As the life… Read more »
La región salvaje
Amat Escalante’s film La región salvaje (2016), or The Untamed in english territories, is a bizarre fusion of the domestic drama with erotic science fiction. Escalante transports Edo style erotic,… Read more »
Songs For Drella
After the sudden death of Andy Warhol in 1987, Julian Schnabel reunited John Cale with Lou Reed suggesting that the two musicians, formerly of The Velvet Underground, memorialize Warhol. The… Read more »
The Crazies
George A. Romero’s film The Crazies (1973), made on a shoestring budget, has found new renown and relevancy in the COVID age. Audiences who knew Romero only for his zombie… Read more »
Willy’s Wonderland
Willy’s Wonderland (2021) is really a film for people of a certain age. Willy’s Wonderland plays with the terror of what once was Chuck E. Cheese. This chain of restaurants… Read more »
Uptight
Uptight (1968) is one of the most criminally underrated pictures of all time. This reimagining of Liam O’Flaherty’s novel The Informer is so close to the reality of Fred Hampton’s… Read more »
