Merrily We Go To Hell
Dorothy Arzner’s pre-code classic Merrily We Go To Hell (1932) is more of the zeitgeist now than it was back when it was first released. A home video package of… Read more »
In The Heat Of The Night
Alan Parker’s film Mississippi Burning (1988) is a film about hate. It offers viewers an endless spectacle of hatred and violence with only the illusion of nuance. Parker’s images of… Read more »
Venom
Instead of appearing in Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) Klaus Kinski chose to star in Venom (1981) which offered more money and, according to Kinski, a superior script. The… Read more »
The Heroic Trio
Johnnie To’s The Heroic Trio (1993) is an aesthetic fusion of the contemporary Hong Kong action film and the American superhero films of the late eighties and early nineties. The… Read more »
Night Tide
Curtis Harrington is one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of Hollywood. A forerunner in many respects to the New Queer cinema of the nineties, Harrington began his… Read more »
Golden Temple Amazons
Golden Temple Amazons (1986) is a quick, low budget, European film meant to ride the wave of popularity surrounding the sword and sandal and jungle adventure sub genre boom of… Read more »
Respect
Respect (2021) is a typical biographical drama. It distills a fraction of Aretha Franklin’s life into a series of melodramatic beats that get little or no exploration. Any transcendency to… Read more »
Twins Of Evil
John Hough, the director of The Incubus (1982) and Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), helmed this latter day Hammer classic Twins Of Evil (1971). Twins Of Evil is one of… Read more »
Xtro
Harry Bromley Davenport’s Xtro (1982) is a true tour de force. Davenport utilizes all of the most nightmarish aspects of the horror film to put into images the childhood trauma… Read more »
Beach Babes From Beyond
There is something special about trashy summer movies. These movies evoke a carefree time of adventure while also serving up some mindless humor and sometimes gore. Recently I saw Jaws:… Read more »
