Scooby-Doo
Scooby-Doo (2002) has very little to recommend it to those who aren’t already part of that property’s cult following. Director Raja Gosnell literally translated the cartoon to live action so… Read more »
Scooby-Doo (2002) has very little to recommend it to those who aren’t already part of that property’s cult following. Director Raja Gosnell literally translated the cartoon to live action so… Read more »
X is Y (1990) is classic Richard Kern. Since his heyday as one of the great provocateurs of the Transgressive Cinema movement Kern has been working primarily as a photographer…. Read more »
I went into The Barbarians (1987) expecting something like The Seven Magnificent Gladiators (1983) but with a little more gore and sleaze (which one expects from Canon Films) but The… Read more »
Eventually every cinephile and movie nerd has to see Fuego (1969), and I do mean “has to”. If you work outside of the mainstream entertainment industry you’ll be inspired by… Read more »
Like so many of Pierce Brosnan’s pre-Bond films, The Heist (1989) is a lot of unpretentious fun. The Heist isn’t as good as Taffin (1988), as sleazy as Victim Of… Read more »
With Shout! Factory’s announcement today that they’ll be releasing John Guillermin’s King Kong (1976) I thought it would be fitting to discuss this childhood favorite. I must have watched King… Read more »
Miklós Jancsó’s Szegénylegények (1966) is one of those films that makes up the upper echelon of cinematic achievement. It’s been praised as a “classic” a “must-see” and has been a… Read more »
Sometimes I am surprised by which films my students seem to love. I’ve learned that if a film contains a certain degree of exuberance, that exuberance tends to lend itself… Read more »
If you’re the best there is they never would have invented the wheel. The best Schwarzenegger films always have a bit more to them than just the muscle of action… Read more »
I wrote a piece recently about sensory memory. For me personally I experience sensory memory through the cinema more than any other stimuli. To Sleep With Anger (1990) in particular… Read more »