Land Of The Pharaohs
It’s funny how Land Of The Pharaohs (1955) is better known today as a favorite film of a celebrated auteur rather than as the lost masterpiece of one of the… Read more »
Saving Silverman
Saving Silverman (2001) is one of those films that dominated cable movie channels in the middle of the day throughout the mid-2000s. It’s a film that I encountered in a… Read more »
Avere vent’anni
Avere vent’anni (1978) is one of the most infamous Italian shockers of the seventies and perhaps the most controversial film in Fernando Di Leo’s career. Di Leo wrote, produced and… Read more »
The Tuxedo
Jackie Chan starred in The Tuxedo (2002) while on hiatus from shooting Gordon Chan’s Hong Kong production The Medallion (2003) for the sole purpose of collaborating with Steven Spielberg’s production… Read more »
Day Of The Outlaw
Andre DeToth’s masterpiece of the Western genre, Day Of The Outlaw (1959), is one of the most influential and important films of its genre ever made. From Il grande silenzio… Read more »
Barbie
In anticipation of Greta Gerwig’s summer event movie Barbie (2023) I couldn’t help but think about Small Soldiers (1998). Joe Dante’s satirical masterpiece was conceived for the sake of Burger… Read more »
The Return Of Captain Invincible
The Return Of Captain Invincible (1982) combines the wit and counterculture savvy of Richard O’Brien with Philippe Mora’s distinctly Australian view of American imperialism all within the aesthetic milieu of… Read more »
Ashanti
Ashanti (1979) revisits many of the same themes of racism and the legacy of slavery as Richard Fleischer’s earlier film Mandingo (1975). Both films are highly sensationalist renderings of a… Read more »
Boys & Girls
From the director of Cinderella (1997) and She’s All That (1999), Robert Iscove, came the painfully awkward romantic comedy Boys & Girls (2000). Boys & Girls came out at the… Read more »
Mission: Impossible
With Mission: Impossible-Dead Reckoning Part I (2023) out everyone is talking about Tom Cruise and his stunts. At some point after John Woo’s ill-fated outing in the franchise Tom Cruise… Read more »
