History Is Made At Night
No filmmaker in all of cinema could rival Frank Borzage as a portraitist of love and desire. Borzage’s films have the uncanny ability of wedding fragments of reality to the… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
EuroTrip
Sometimes one hears things about a film dismissed a long, long time ago from a trusted source or friend and one decides to see that movie. This, for me, was… Read more »
Virus-l’inferno dei morti viventi
In Papua, New Guinea a series of secret chemical research facilities are covertly experimenting on ways of solving the problem of over population. When there’s an accident at one of… Read more »
Magical Mystery Tour
We rented a bus and off we went. There was some planning: John would always want a midget or two around.. -Ringo Starr With the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club… Read more »
Oblivion
The year is 3031 and the reptilian alien Red Eye (Andrew Divoff) has come to the Earth town on Oblivion to set up shop. When Red Eye kills the sheriff,… Read more »
The Mighty Peking Man
From a remote Indian jungle a rumor has spread of a giant gorilla. Word reaches Hong Kong and an unscrupulous businessman, Lu Tien (Ku Feng), enlists a heartbroken explorer, Feng… Read more »
Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe (1952) was MGM’s big blockbuster and Oscar contender of 1952. Richard Thorpe directs this rousing adaptation of Sir Walter Scott’s novel starring Robert Taylor as Ivanhoe, Elizabeth Taylor as… Read more »
Baba Yaga
Guido Crepax’s Valentina comics follow the titular character through a series of episodes whose connections to one another, as well as their own individual structure, is often times surreal and… Read more »
Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson’s portrait of Southern Californian youth in the early seventies, Licorice Pizza (2021), is the filmmaker’s most tender film to date. Licorice Pizza doesn’t carry the tension or… Read more »
Alison’s Birthday
As Alison’s (Joanne Samuel) nineteenth birthday draws near she begins to suspect that there is more to her beloved aunt and uncle (Bunney Brooke and John Bluthal) than she originally… Read more »
