Starcrash
Starcrash (1978) is probably exactly what one would expect from a Roger Corman produced Star Wars (1977) knock-off; it’s cheap, campy, gaudy, and hilarious. Since I first saw this film… Read more »
Chocolat
Claire Denis’ has given us some of the best films about French colonialism in Africa. Chocolat (1988), her directorial debut, inaugurates her career long investigation into what imperialism meant and… Read more »
Portrait Of Jason
People talk about Rio Bravo (1959) being one of the great “hang out” movies of all time, but, for me, Portrait Of Jason (1967) totally eclipses Rio Bravo in that… Read more »
Latitude Zero
Latitude Zero (1969) is my kind of special effects movie; every effect is practical. I grew up watching Stingray (1964) so these sorts of model heavy effects from the sixties… Read more »
Give My Regards To Broadstreet
One often hears rock musicals criticized for being nothing more but a loose thread of a plot stringing together a series of disparate music videos. Of course this isn’t always… Read more »
Prime Cut
Prime Cut (1972) opens in Kansas with a montage following the progress that a cow makes from the barn to the burger packing machine. Then, we following the “excess” meat… Read more »
Ley Lines
Few filmmakers are even half as prolific as Takashi Miike. For that reason alone you have to respect him as a filmmaker. Miike has tried his hand at every genre,… Read more »
L’Eden et après
L’Eden et après (1970) is the first of two films Alain Robbe-Grillet made from the same footage; the other being N. Took The Dice (1971). Both films tell the same… Read more »
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 »
X is Y
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 »
