Zotz!
God, where are we going? It’s a society that is growing up fast. It’s possibly because of what has happened in our country and throughout the world. There’s no communications… Read more »
Sword Of The Valiant
Sword of the Valiant (1984) was Yoram Globus and Menahem Golan’s attempt to cash-in on the success of John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981) by adapting the 14th century Arthurian poem Sir… Read more »
The Vikings
Violence is everywhere in Richard Fleischer’s film The Vikings (1958). For men, one could be slain any minute by a sword or an axe and women face sexual assault at… Read more »
The Disaster Artist
It seems only natural to me that the man behind The Ape (2005) would find a natural sort of kinship with Tommy Wiseau the creator of the cult phenomenon The… Read more »
Taking Care Of Business
Gone Fishin’ (1997) is one of the most insane buddy movies I’ve ever seen. Jill Mazursky’s scripting is a work of comic genius run amok like a manic Jerry Lewis… Read more »
Céline et Julie vont en bateau
Céline et Julie vont en bateau (1974) just got released by the Criterion Collection this Tuesday. I got my copy in the mail the same day, upgrading from my BFI… Read more »
8 Million Ways To Die
8 Million Ways To Die (1986) could have been one of Hal Ashby’s greatest films, but he was fired before post-production could begin. Ashby’s great talent was to shoot his… Read more »
Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife
For many Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife (1938) is lesser Ernst Lubitsch. Sure Lubitsch and star Claudette Colbert could never top the “Jazz Up Your Lingerie” sequence in The Smiling Lieutenant (1931),… Read more »
Deathsport
Deathsport (1978) is a prime example of the type of film that Roger Corman’s New World Pictures was churning out in the late seventies. The film is packed to the… Read more »
Caravaggio
A few years ago I was at Comic Con. I shopped, I saw friends and I took in a few panels. One of these panels was with Sean Bean. When… Read more »
