The Killers
Film Noir is as celebrated and fetishized as it is misunderstood. The films considered Film Noir were only so labeled well after the fact in order to create a canon… Read more »
Dumb Money
Craig Gillespie’s film of The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich, Dumb Money (2023), takes the familiar formal structure of his earlier film I, Tonya (2017), which itself is derived from… Read more »
Priscilla
Priscilla (2023) is Sofia Coppola’s Raging Bull (1980); a film that documents the all encompassing destructive nature of masculinity. But unlike Scorsese’s film, Priscilla is a story told from the… Read more »
Shogun Assassin
For many people of my generation Shogun Assassin (1980) was one of the first Japanese films that we ever saw. Out at the local video store Shogun Assassin awaited us… Read more »
Sex & Fury
Director Norifumi Suzuki re-teamed with Toei star Reiko Ike after making a number of Girl Boss films together for the action-thriller Sex & Fury (1973). Both director and star specialized… Read more »
Killers Of The Flower Moon
Martin Scorsese’s historical epic Killers Of The Flower Moon (2023) has been released and entered public discourse as the United States, as a nation, grapples with its history and attempts… Read more »
A Haunting In Venice
Kenneth Branagh’s latest opus, A Haunting In Venice (2023), is his third outing with Agatha Christie following Murder On The Orient Express (2017) and Death On The Nile (2022). Branagh’s… Read more »
Dishonored
Josef von Sternberg’s pre-code spy romance Dishonored (1931) sees his muse Marlene Dietrich as a Mata Hari type of character spying on the Russians for Austria during WWI. Josef von… Read more »
Pain Hustlers
Pain Hustlers (2023), David Yates’ exposé of big pharmaceuticals, blatantly takes Scorsese’s The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013) as its aesthetic blueprint. Produced for the streaming giant Netflix, Pain Hustlers… Read more »
Serving Sara
Serving Sara (2002) is a vulgar road comedy packed with casual misogyny and jokes that never quite stick the landing. Rightfully so, Serving Sara was panned by critics when it… Read more »
