Heat
After the increasing successes of Flesh (1968), Trash (1970), and the underrated Women In Revolt (1971) Paul Morrissey’s films for producer Andy Warhol reached their zenith of mainstream acclaim with… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Neptune’s Daughter
Neptune’s Daughter (1949) is a technicolor musical from MGM starring the inimitable Esther Williams. Neptune’s Daughter re-teamed MGM’s “Million Dollar Mermaid” with leading men Red Skelton and Ricardo Montalban along… Read more »
De Sade 70
De Sade 70 (1970) or Eugenie… The Story of Her Journey into Perversion is Jesús Franco’s second film adaptation of a work by the Marquis de Sade. For a long… Read more »
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Sony Pictures is apparently pretty desperate to make a Ghostbusters revival happen. Audiences, in a fervor of sexism and hatred, killed the Paul Feig reboot of 2016 forcing Sony Pictures… Read more »
Landscapers
In 1998 Susan Edwards (Olivia Colman) and her husband Christopher (David Thewlis) murdered Susan’s parents and stole £300K from them. They spent this money living abroad in Paris on Hollywood… Read more »
CQ
Roman Coppola’s ambitious debut feature CQ (2001) was one of the hot items that year. It’s self-deprecating humor and genuine affection for science fiction films of the sixties like Barbarella… Read more »
Follow Me, Boys!
Follow Me, Boys! (1966) was the last feature film that Walt Disney himself had a hand in. The Norman Rockwell small town location, the Boy Scouts of America propaganda as… Read more »
A Night At The Opera
Say what you will about the Marx Brothers but there is no denying their immeasurable impact on comedy. Their film with director Leo McCarey, Duck Soup (1933), is a masterpiece… Read more »
Goodbye, Columbus
Director Larry Peerce is that classic example of the journeyman filmmaker. For years before directing his first theatrical feature Peerce worked in television, becoming one of the most efficient and… Read more »
Stroszek
Stroszek (1977) is one of Werner Herzog’s greatest films. It’s a darkly comic character study and indictment of American culture. If the American dream is an open road of limitless… Read more »
