Valentine
Valentine (2001) may be based upon a novel, but its style and execution is clearly building off of Kevin Williamson’s hits in the slasher genre. For director Jamie Blanks Valentine… Read more »
White Star
White Star (1983) finds filmmaker Roland Klick (best known for the films Supermarkt and Deadlock) turning a critical eye towards the music promotion business. Klick satirizes the crass publicity surrounding… Read more »
Westward The Women
Westward The Women (1951) follows Buck Wyatt (Robert Taylor) as he leads a group of one-hundred and forty women (including Denise Darcel, Hope Emerson and Julie Bishop) from Chicago to… Read more »
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
In many ways Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) is the quintessential Steven Spielberg film. It dares to dream that there is magic in the suburbs. It codifies Eastern… Read more »
The Deadly Camp
In producer Wong Jing’s The Deadly Camp (1999) two groups of vacationing friends are terrorized by a family of psychotic lepers on a remote island. The film is a hodgepodge… Read more »
Beware The Black Widow
Beware The Black Widow (1968) is director Larry Crane’s grim and grimy tale of revenge. The plot follows a pair of newspaper men investigating the murders of the members of… Read more »
Predator
Arnold Schwarzenegger was unstoppable. He was Conan The Barbarian (1982), he was The Terminator (1984), and you better not give him a Raw Deal (1986). Arnold Schwarzenegger was a superhuman… Read more »
Baby Sister
In the bitter cold months of winter it’s always nice to visit a film set in summer or in a warmer climate. The made-for-TV film Baby Sister (1984) fits that… Read more »
Trouble Bound
Trouble Bound (1993) is something of a classic from the heyday of the video store. Filed under action, this pseudo neo-noir adventure found its audience among fans of Reservoir Dogs… Read more »
A Woman’s Torment
Filmmaker Roberta Findlay has always maintained that her film A Woman’s Torment (1977) was not feminist. Yet the film lends its self to such a reading very easily. Immediately A… Read more »
