Mannequin
When I was in college I used to walk passed the Macy’s in center city Philadelphia every day. I remember checking out the window displays, Dickens’ village and the pipe… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Voodoo Heartbeat
“Very strange circumstances surround the use of the serum or potion.” Voodoo Heartbeat (1972) is a regional horror film shot for the local drive-in market circa 1970. The film has… Read more »
Class
Andrew McCarthy has been back in the public eye promoting his new documentary Brats (2024). And while there wasn’t much to redeem what amounts to a ninety minute pity party,… Read more »
The Inferno
“I am bringing Hell to everyone” The Inferno (1979) is one of those rare films by Tatsumi Kumashiro that isn’t overtly erotic or a sexploitation film. The Inferno finds the… Read more »
Alex In Wonderland
Alex In Wonderland (1970) is director Paul Mazursky’s 8½ (1963). The film’s protagonist Alex Morrison (Donald Sutherland) references the film in dialogue about as often as Mazursky does cinematographically. Federico… Read more »
Pioniere In Ingolstadt
“That’s the only thing you have as a soldier; the women.” Pioniere in Ingolstadt (1971) was filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s ninth film in three years. The film adapts Marieluise Fleißer’s… Read more »
Begin Again
In Begin Again (2013) filmmaker John Carney wears his influences on his sleeve. A Star Is Born (any version) looms large over Begin Again as do films like High Fidelity… Read more »
Die! Die! My Darling!
Die! Die! My Darling! (1965) was the great Tallulah Bankhead’s final film but it was also one of the late Donald Sutherland’s first films. Sutherland’s early career in British horror… Read more »
Blonde Death
“I’m too old to spank” Cult author James Robert Baker’s SOV classic Blonde Death (1984) is a bonafide assault on middle American values. Like John Waters before him, Baker’s film… Read more »
Terror In A Texas Town
Dalton Trumbo’s script for Terror In A Texas Town (1958) pits farmer against land owner; it’s a case of free will versus authoritarianism, socialism versus capitalism. These conflicts are rendered… Read more »
