The iconoclast Shinya Tsukamoto followed his avant-garde masterpiece Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) with the mainstream horror-comedy Hiruko The Goblin (1991). While Tsukamoto retains some of his trademark body-horror elements… Read more »
Frank Perry’s film Rancho Deluxe (1975) is a dry character driven comedy that looks at the fallout of American Manifest Destiny in the mid-twentieth century. It’s a film where cattle… Read more »
There are some films that have been so celebrated and so often written about that it is difficult to imagine that one could have anything new to say. However, only… Read more »
Despite budgetary constraints, Christopher Wesley Moore’s Children Of Sin (2022) successfully evokes the milieu of an eighties slasher while also managing to be a scathing commentary on conversion therapy and… Read more »
In fourth grade I took Stephen King’s Cycle Of The Werewolf out from my public library. It was Halloween season and my best friend and I thrilled to Bernie Wrightson’s… Read more »
During World War II, an American G.I. is forced to parachute and lands outside of a remote Japanese village. Very quickly the soldier is captured by the villagers and imprisoned…. Read more »
It was pretty anomalous that American Graffiti (1973) became a classic American film when one considers that the film, despite its press, has three authors in the form of director… Read more »
In many ways Frog Dreaming (1986) is the Australian response to The Goonies (1985). Screenwriter and producer Everett De Roche adds one crucial element to Frog Dreaming that makes it… Read more »
In a rural Italian village at the height of WWII, Rosa (Leonora Fani) and her mother Marta (Lidia Biondi) run a hotel. Rosa eagerly awaits her father’s return from the… Read more »
In High Life (2018) filmmaker Claire Denis uses the science fiction genre to deal with human themes in the abstract. As a space ship of convicts hurdles towards a black… Read more »
