Thriller – A Cruel Picture
Bo Arne Vibenius’ Thriller – A Cruel Picture (1973) is one of the most infamous grindhouse films of the seventies and is totally deserving if its title. Thriller is a… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
House Of Gucci
Screenwriter Becky Johnston adapted House Of Gucci (2021) from Sara Gay Forden’s novel of the same name. It’s an uneven screenplay that has as many wonderfully satirical moments as it… Read more »
Shang-Chi
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021), or simply Shang-Chi, is but another film in Disney’s long line of Marvel Comics movies. As Disney continues to mine its… Read more »
Kite
Yasuomi Umetsu’s Kite (1998) is a three part OVA that has subsequently been edited and released as a single feature film. As an OVA Kite wasn’t subject to the same… Read more »
Happiest Season
Acclaimed actress turned filmmaker Clea DuVall helmed Happiest Season (2020); the holiday romantic comedy that broke major ground for the representation of queer women. This has secured Happiest Season a… Read more »
November
Andrus Kivirähk’s novel Rehepapp ehk November, published in 2000, examines and satirizes the roles that superstition and religion play in humanity’s everyday life via a fantasy story set in 19th… Read more »
The Zero Boys
B-movie auteur Nico Mastorakis brings his signature brand of gross-out zaniness to The Zero Boys (1986) with complete relish. It’s a film that is far more concerned with delivering graphically… Read more »
Una sull’altra
Lucio Fulci’s Una sull’altra (1969) is a giallo picture that works as a sort of remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958). In both films identity, on a conceptual level, is… Read more »
City On Fire
There’s no better way to kick-off the holiday season than with Ringo Lam’s City On Fire (1987). This Hong Kong crime thriller is one of the most influential films of… Read more »
Hollywood Boulevard
Candy (Candice Rialson) has just arrived in Los Angeles to make it big in the movies. Almost immediately she finds an agent, Walter Paisley (Dick Miller) who gets her a… Read more »
