The Naked Prey
“Africa splashed into the consciousness of the rest of the world in July 1960 with the eruption of the newly independent Congo, all but forgotten since the days of the… Read more »
“Africa splashed into the consciousness of the rest of the world in July 1960 with the eruption of the newly independent Congo, all but forgotten since the days of the… Read more »
“Dreams we dream alone is only a dream, but dreams we dream together is reality” – Yoko Ono, 1971 Fantasy is at the heart of Spike Lee’s film BlacKKKlansman (2018)…. Read more »
“I created ‘The Westerner’ because of anger – anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters … anger at TV’s quick-draw tin gods who stand behind a tin star or… Read more »
J’embrasse pas (1991) is the culmination, in many respects, to a long meditation on the psychological turmoil of youth, a meditation that has undergone a number of revisions from film… Read more »
An amazing package was put together by Soul Jazz Records in 2015 for the release of Kailash. The music contained within this set is composed of solo piano versions of music… Read more »
This review was first published during the initial release of this film. Spotlight (2015), despite all of the hype, is not the first film to deal with the sexual abuse… Read more »
Charles Beaumont made a career of writing macabre stories whose slight removal from the reality we know and share gave them a urgency and horror that would influence a generation…. Read more »
Zoe Cassavetes’ first feature film, Broken English (2007), is an analysis of what love means to her generation, and the perception of happiness that goes with it. Stylistically, the film… Read more »
In 1947 and 1948 Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer produced two low budget comedy vehicles for contract star Red Skelton. The first of these was The Show Off directed by Harry Beaumont and the… Read more »
In 1967, Jean-Pierre Melville released his film Le Samourai. It is not a “New Wave” film, it is a classic genre film; it is a meticulous and objective study of behavior,… Read more »