Du Barry Was A Lady
Arthur Freed’s production of Du Barry Was A Lady (1943) reimagines the Cole Porter musical of the same name as a vaudeville variety show meant to showcase the talents under… Read more »
Quick Change
“The bank robbery was easy, getting out of New York was a nightmare”, so says the tag line for Bill Murray and Howard Franklin’s Quick Change (1990). Franklin and Murray’s… Read more »
Black Widow
Black Widow (2021) arrived a decade too late. After so many stops and goes Scarlett Johansson finally gets her solo superhero outing after Disney has killed off her character within… Read more »
The Tomorrow War
In 2051 the human race dies at the hands of hostile aliens even after recruiting more soldiers from the past of 2022. One of those soldiers, Dan Forester (Chris Pratt),… Read more »
Werewolves Within
Mishna Wolff adapts the video game Werewolves Within keenly, using the mafia-style format of the game as a means of examining and satirizing the cultural divides within our nation. She… Read more »
Battle Hymn
Douglas Sirk’s Battle Hymn (1957) is in many ways a typical “ode to the armed forces” melodrama that was very popular in the fifties. Still, there’s enough of Sirk in… Read more »
Gwendoline
Just Jaeckin’s Gwendoline (1984) is the career culmination of the director’s primary filmic concerns: adventure films and skin flicks. The first hour of Gwendoline makes the most of these strengths… Read more »
Summer Of Soul
In 1969 Hal Tulchin produced a film record of the shows performed as part of the Harlem Cultural Festival. Roughly fifty years later Robert Fyvolent came into possession of the… Read more »
Jacknife
Stephen Metcalfe adapted his stage play Strange Snow into the screenplay for Jacknife (1989) with David Jones directing. The film follows Megs (Robert De Niro) as he tries to reconnect… Read more »
The Uncanny X-Men
There are three major events in popular culture that formed my generation’s childhood. The first was Tim Burton’s Batman (1989), followed by the publication of X-Men #1 in 1991, and… Read more »
