Gebroken spiegels
Dutch auteur Marleen Gorris’ film Gebroken spiegels (1984) is a film of dual narratives. The majority of the film follows the lives of a group of sex workers employed at… Read more »
The Honeymoon Killers
Leonard Kastle’s only foray into filmmaking, The Honeymoon Killers (1970), is often labeled a cult classic though through its influence, tenacity, and cultural significance it deserves to be heralded as… Read more »
1990: I guerrieri del Bronx
1990: I guerrieri del Bronx (1982) is a campy fusion of the aesthetics and narratives of The Warriors (1979) with Escape From New York (1981). 1990: I guerrieri del Bronx… Read more »
The Paperboy
When The Paperboy (2012) first came out it felt like everyone, from the people I knew to the critics I read, hated the picture. I was alone among my cinephile… Read more »
El Bosque del Lobo
Pedro Olea’s El Bosque del Lobo (1970) follows the itinerant peddler Benito Freire (José Luis López Vázquez) as he criss-crosses his way through the Spanish countryside at the dawn of… Read more »
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Tobe Hooper’s film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is one of the most important and influential films that has ever been made. It is impossible to measure the cultural… Read more »
Fire & Ice
Ralph Bakshi’s film Fire & Ice (1983) came out at the height of popularity for the fantasy film genre. Bakshi, realizing the limitations of special effects of the day, seized… Read more »
Gas Pump Girls
When Uncle Joe (Huntz Hall) begins losing business to a big corporate owned filling station across the street from his own and has a heart attack, his favorite niece June… Read more »
Impulse
The new Blu-Ray of William Grefé’s Impulse (1974) from Grindhouse Releasing is by all means superb. In addition to a gorgeous restoration of Impulse itself the set also includes two… Read more »
Madeleine, anatomia di un incubo
Madeleine, anatomia di un incubo (1974) is a film full of hallucinatory images, vibrant colors, and pounding synth music that takes the tropes of Gothic literature and injects them into… Read more »
