Eyewitness
Filmmaker Peter Yates made two very good films that have been popularly canonized as classics. The first of these two films is Bullitt (1968) and the second was The Friends… Read more »
Heaven Can Wait
Before making his masterpiece Reds (1981), Warren Beatty produced, directed, co-wrote and starred in Heaven Can Wait (1978), a remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941). Compared to the histrionics… Read more »
The Devil’s Honey
The Devil’s Honey (1986) finds director Lucio Fulci at his most excessive. The filmmaker has maximized all of his usual stylistic flourishes, rendering this boiler plate erotic thriller as some… Read more »
Best Worst Movie
In Best Worst Movie (2009), Troll 2 (1989) actor Michael Stephenson turns his camera to the cult following that has grown around Troll 2 in the years since its release…. Read more »
No Tears For The Damned
Chock full of gratuitous nudity and primitive gore effects, No Tears For The Damned (1968) is a regional B-Movie that riffs on the themes of Psycho (1960). No Tears For… Read more »
Ferrari
Michael Mann has found his double in Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver). Ferrari (2023) is a portrait of a man driven to achieve perfection at the cost of relationships, humanity, and… Read more »
Over The Edge
Over The Edge (1979) is a film of rage on behalf of the marginalized and down trodden in our society. Although the rioters at the end of the film are… Read more »
Silly Rabbit, These Flicks Are For Kids
Films we see as children shape our tastes for years to come as well as who we are. The films we see at an impressionable age stick with us. We… Read more »
Napoleon
It’s impossible to watch Ridley Scott’s film Napoleon (2023) and not compare it to Abel Gance’s epic masterpiece Napoléon (1927). By comparison Scott’s film feels heavy and directionless; a behemoth… Read more »
Cellar Dweller
Charles Band’s production Cellar Dweller (1988) is the unlikely link between The Evil Dead (1981) and Castle Freak (1995). Cellar Dweller features a monster brought forth by a book who… Read more »
