Scream
Scream (1996) is the quintessential nineties horror film. Scream had the hippest soundtrack, a sadistically ironic sense of humor, a legendary cast of then up and coming young stars and… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Rasputin The Mad Monk
Shot on the same sets and at the same time as The Reptile (1966) and Dracula: Prince Of Darkness (1966), Rasputin the Mad Monk (1966) is a relatively low budget… Read more »
The Outlaw Josey Wales
In the year of the United States’ bicentennial, Clint Eastwood released on audiences his first major revisionist western The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). Immediately one can see the influence of… Read more »
Children Of Divorce
The essential “It” girl and Hollywood’s first sex symbol Clara Bow gives a rather restrained performance in the Frank Lloyd melodrama Children Of Divorce (1927). The verve and youthful recklessness… Read more »
Piranha
Joe Dante’s Piranha (1978) is a creature feature with its tongue planted firmly in its cheek. This quicke Roger Corman production was penned by John Sayles and combines the familiar… Read more »
Executioners
For Executioners (1993), the sequel to The Heroic Trio (1993), Johhnie To returned to the dirctor’s chair, though this time he shared duties with Ching Siu-tung. Ching Siu-tung, best known… Read more »
Body Drop Asphalt
Junko Wada’s Body Drop Asphalt (2000) is an irreverent post-modernist comedy about identity and creativity. Shot on DV tape, Body Drop Asphalt embraces the kinetic camera movements and manic style… Read more »
Death On The Nile
The COVID-19 pandemic delayed Kenneth Branagh’s Death On The Nile (2022), the sequel to his Murder On The Orient Express (2017), again and again for two whole years. Presumably this… Read more »
Trans-Europ-Express
Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Trans-Europ-Express (1966) applies the filmmaker’s Nouveau roman formal experiments onto the crime film as a means of parodying the genre as well as the filmmaking process itself. Of… Read more »
Sleeping Beauty
Julia Leigh’s film Sleeping Beauty (2011), as the title suggests, draws upon the classic folktale to construct its social commentary. Leigh, a well respected Australian author, also based her screenplay… Read more »
