Cyrano
The oft told (and adapted) tale of Cyrano de Bergerac, Roxanne and Christian de Neuvillette gets the musical treatment courtesy of The National and director Joe Wright. The project originated… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
The Love God?
“This is a dirty case and a dirty little man.” The Love God? (1969) is easily the best of Don Knotts’ comedies. Unlike The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964), The Ghost… Read more »
Redes
According to Martin Scorsese’s introduction to the Criterion Collection release of Redes (1936) the film is the product of a collaboration between the Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas, the Austrian expatriate… Read more »
Daughter Of Darkness
Kai-Ming Lai’s Daughter Of Darkness (1993) is one of the best known entries in Hong Kong cinema’s Category III pseudo sub-genre. Category III films encompass a wide variety of genres… Read more »
Maniac Cop
Lt. Frank McCrae (Tom Atkins) is hot on the trail of a serial killer whom he suspects is a cop. The first big break in the case comes when Officer… Read more »
Punisher: War Zone
If a good comic book movie is defined by its fidelity to the source material then Punisher: War Zone (2008) is a masterpiece. Low-budget and gruesome, Punisher: War Zone is… Read more »
Les liaisons perverses
Les liaisons perverses (1975) follows Hélène’s (Mona Heftre) affair with a photographer (Pierre Oudrey) who shoots pornographic layouts for adult magazines. Hélène’s bourgeois attitudes are quietly subverted as she embarks… Read more »
Seventeen
In the same decade that John Hughes redefined what it meant to be a teenager in movies Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines made their film Seventeen (1983). An exercise in… Read more »
The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent
At its core The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent (2022) is just like most Nicolas Cage movies made in the last ten years; a boiler plate thriller for the direct… Read more »
Der Schatz im Silbersee
Karl May looms large in the landscape of German culture. His nineteenth century western adventure novels, influential in their day, re-entered German popular culture in the post-war period as the… Read more »
