Midnight Run
I grew up with Midnight Run (1988) on VHS. I didn’t like Midnight Run as much as Clifford (1994) or The Lonely Guy (1984) and it wasn’t as comforting as… Read more »
Cold Heaven
In Cold Heaven (1991) director Nicolas Roeg explores again themes of the supernatural, faith and adultery, utilizing his signature brand of cross-cutting. Allan Scott, who wrote a total of five… Read more »
Sheena
The concept of the Jungle Queen predates Tarzan of the Apes by roughly eight years with William Henry Hudson’s Green Mansions‘ publication in 1904. In 1938 Fiction House immortalized the… Read more »
Matango
Matango (1963), also known as Attack Of The Mushroom People in the U.S., is another foray into horror by the Japanese master Ishirō Honda. Like so many of Toho’s productions… Read more »
Black Rainbow
I think the fact that Mike Hodges is British is essential to Black Rainbow (1989). When one looks at a foreign culture one sees little about it that is common… Read more »
Rolls-Royce Baby
Rolls-Royce Baby (1975) is essentially a film documenting Lina Romay (playing Lisa) tooling around in her fancy car looking for sex. Which, despite how it sounds, is pretty incredible. When… Read more »
Horsehead
Romain Basset’s Horsehead (2014) is definitely a case where style rules over substance. The images are beautiful, surreal, disturbing, and grotesque yet they lack any real symbolism. Basset’s tapestry of… Read more »
Les Témoins
Les Témoins (2007) is André Téchiné at his most politically powerful. The film addresses the systematic homophobia that swept France in the wake of the AIDs outbreak of 1984. Téchiné… Read more »
Sons Of Sam
Things like Making A Murderer (2015 – 2018) just do not happen every day. It’s rare that a documentary film or series constructively impacts our society let alone changes the… Read more »
Evil Cat
Every fifty years an evil cat spirit returns to find a host to exact revenge against the Cheung family, the chosen guardians of humanity against this diabolical feline phantom. The… Read more »
