Breaking In
Breaking In (1989) is exactly the sort of crime film one would expect from screenwriter John Sayles and director Bill Forsyth. Breaking In is not the adrenaline packed thrill ride… Read more »
I Like Movies
I Like Movies (2022) follows the trials and tribulations of high school senior Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) as he prepares for college and navigates his first job at a video… Read more »
Red Noses
Red Noses (1932) is the seventh of forty-one two-reel pre-code comedies produced by Hal Roach in the Girlfriends series. The plot of this particular adventure finds our heroines Miss Pitts… Read more »
Knock Knock
From the second I began watching Knock Knock (2015) I began thinking about whether Keanu Reeves really is the new Seymour Cassel. By the end of the film it’s clear… Read more »
Colloque de chiens
Colloque de chiens (1977) is an experimental short film by the late Raúl Ruiz shot (by Denis Lenoir) shortly after the filmmaker’s move to France from Chile following Augusto Pinochet’s… Read more »
Racing With The Moon
Before they were anybody Nicolas Cage and Crispin Glover starred in a musical pilot for a show that never got picked up titled The Best Of Times (1981). Richard Benjamin’s… Read more »
Lady Battle Cop
Akihisa Okamoto’s film Lady Battle Cop (1990) is everything one could want or expect from vintage Japanese V-Cinema. Lady Battle Cop is violent, campy, low-budget, and over the top. It… Read more »
Povestea dragostei
Povestea dragostei (1977) is a “photo-mix” Romanian fairytale film by Ion Popescu-Gopo that freely adapts Ion Creangă’s classic tale Povestea porcului. Popescu-Gopo’s lifelong interest in the early animated features produced… Read more »
BlackBerry
Matt Johnson’s film BlackBerry (2023) takes its dramatic and aesthetic cues from The Social Network (2010) to tell the story of founders Mike Lazaridis (Jay Baruchel), Doug Fregin (director Matt… Read more »
Cops vs. Thugs
Auteur Kinji Fukasaku is the quintessential director of yakuza films. Fukasaku helmed films across genres, but it is his work in the yakuza film that he is best known for… Read more »
