Alien: Covenant
The best part of Ridley Scott’s latest offering, Alien: Covenant (2017), is when Michael Fassbender kisses Michael Fassbender. The film features Fassbender in dual roles as the androids David and… Read more »
Live & Let Die
Sean Connery’s Bond is a tough, sexually aggressive and predatory character. He reflects the feeling of masculinity in jeopardy of his times, as swinging London gave way to the summer… Read more »
We Can’t Go Home Again
Recently I watched two films back to back that seemingly have very little in common. Upon a superficial examination these two films appear to only contrast one another. The first… Read more »
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Altman’s film McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a film of cultural anxiety and masculine identity, tied more closely with the time of its production than to the era in which its… Read more »
War For The Planet Of The Apes
“Of course, you know this means war!” – Groucho Marx, A Night At The Opera, 1935 I don’t particularly love war films as a genre. I find most of them… Read more »
Coonskin
In 1946 Walt Disney released Song Of The South, a musical adaptation of Joel Chandler Harris’ Uncle Remus stories. The structure of Song Of The South, live action scenes of the storyteller bookending… Read more »
Dark Phoenix
The Twentieth Century Fox X-Men franchise has come to a close after almost twenty years. It isn’t the kind of conclusion one would expect. It’s not so much a matter… Read more »
Track 29
Nicolas Roeg is famous for the shot compositions in his films, filling the frame with tension and subversive sexual anxiety. In 1988, Roeg made Track 29 with George Harrison’s Handmade Films. The cast… Read more »
Man Of Marble
It took fifteen years for Polish authorities to green light Andrzej Wajda’s production of Man Of Marble (1977); a film so scathing in its analysis of Stalinist propaganda and corruption that… Read more »
Chico Hamilton Quintet: Sweet Smell Of Success
Alexander Mackendrick’s 1957 film Sweet Smell Of Success has become an American classic in the years since its initial release. Much has been written about the films dark themes, James Wong Howe’s… Read more »
