Nobody’s Fool
“You’re a man among men” – Toby Roebuck (Melanie Griffith in Nobody’s Fool) People don’t really talk about great Thanksgiving Day movies. There’s so much fuss over Halloween, and Christmas… Read more »
“You’re a man among men” – Toby Roebuck (Melanie Griffith in Nobody’s Fool) People don’t really talk about great Thanksgiving Day movies. There’s so much fuss over Halloween, and Christmas… Read more »
By the early eighties, John Cassavetes was taking roles in mainstream American films again. The number of films he starred in between 1977 and 1985 that were made by other… Read more »
Here are those times recreatedby the brutal force of sun-drenched images:the light of live tragedy. -from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s poem Tears Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini (2014) could be about any filmmaker… Read more »
Ever since the early 2000s it’s been in vogue, at least on the Internet, to make a mockery of Nicolas Cage. Of course, some of Nicolas Cage’s films have been,… Read more »
Nagisa Oshima has the reputation for being one of the most controversial and cutting edge filmmakers to emerge in Japan during the early sixties. Unlike his contemporaries, Oshima’s films do… Read more »
I have always found the westerns of Howard Hawks to be sentimental and the westerns of John Ford more nostalgic by comparison. This juxtaposition is only necessary because in my… Read more »
Albert Brooks’ second feature film Modern Romance (1981) is a satire unlike few others in popular cinema. As the title suggests, Brooks’ has honed his comical eye on the conventions of… Read more »
Michael Bay has exactly the reputation that he deserves, which is why I have always been so pleasantly surprised by The Island (2005). It’s not that The Island is anything… Read more »
Code Red has done a decent job with restoring Running Scared (1980). The issues I was aware of, in terms of image, have everything to do with the source print… Read more »
Anya Taylor-Joy is amazing. For my money she was the perfect Magik in The New Mutants (2020). She’s been equally as good in The Witch (2015) and Emma (2019); but… Read more »