Nora-neko rokku: Mashin animaru
Nora-neko rokku: Mashin animaru or Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (1970) is the fourth film in the Stray Cat Rock series. This time out, Maya (Meiko Kaji) and her gang… Read more »
Nora-neko rokku: Mashin animaru or Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (1970) is the fourth film in the Stray Cat Rock series. This time out, Maya (Meiko Kaji) and her gang… Read more »
Un cœur en hiver (1992) was Claude Sautet’s penultimate film. With this and Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (1995) Sautet had reached the pinnacle of his powers as a filmmaker. Sautet’s… Read more »
Ikiru (1952) tells the story of an older sararīman named Kani Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) who is diagnosed with stomach cancer, prompting the bureaucrat to actually “live”. With Ikiru Akira Kurosawa… Read more »
In the distant future, in the wake of WWIII, there are few humans alive capable of procreating. The nuclear fallout that has rendered almost all of humanity sterile has also… Read more »
Network’s Tales From Europe collection consists of a number of double-feature, two disc DVD releases of DEFA children’s films made during the fifties. The collection gets its name from a… Read more »
Back in the nineties Stephen Sommers had a reputation for revitalizing genre pictures. The combination of snappy dialogue and left field plot twists were hallmarks of Sommers films, particularly the… Read more »
Laserblast (1978) is one of the worst films I’ve ever seen. Charles Band, the producer of Laserblast, is a kind of hero in the B-Movie world, having helmed both Empire… Read more »
Watching The Nice Guys (2016) on an airplane bound for Colorado some years ago I remember thinking, “so this is the second draft of Kiss, Kiss, Bang, Bang (2005)”. Since… Read more »
Where, indeed, does the moon not look well? What is the scene, confined or expansive, which her orb does not hallow? – Charlotte Brontë There is no real sense of… Read more »
To this day East German cinema is largely inaccessible in the United States, with the notable exception of First Run Features who have made available on DVD a number of… Read more »