Creatures The World Forgot
Creatures The World Forgot (1971) was the last “cave girl” film that Hammer Studios produced. Don Chaffey, who directed One Million Years B.C. (1966), returned to the sub-genre to helm… Read more »
Easy Living
While on her way to work Mary Smith (Jean Arthur) and her hat are clobbered by a defenestrated fur coat. As she goes knocking on doors hoping to return the… Read more »
Hello 2023
One year ends and a new one begins. It’s a kind of annual rebirth that allows one to wipe the slate clean and bid adieu to all the hardships and… Read more »
New Year’s Evil
On New Year’s Eve, in a Holiday Inn high rise, Blaze (Roz Kelly) is hosting a televised punk and new wave show. During the telethon portion of her holiday special… Read more »
Glass Onion
Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion (2022), the much anticipated sequel to Knives Out (2019), reiterates the filmmaker’s low opinion of his audience. Not only does Johnson belabor every significant clue ad… Read more »
While You Were Sleeping
While You Were Sleeping (1995) is one of those films from the “golden age” of romantic comedies that adapted the farcical plotting of screwball comedies for the nineties by populating… Read more »
Fiddler On The Roof
Norman Jewison’s film Fiddler On The Roof (1971) adapts the musical by Joseph Stein, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick for the silver screen (the original musical was itself based on… Read more »
Scarecrow
Director Jerry Schatzberg’s Scarecrow (1973) is a road movie set during the twilight of America’s Vietnam War. The film, written by Garry Michael White, is a portrait of male friendship…. Read more »
Despair
Despair (1978) was Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first english-language feature film. Written by Tom Stoppard and starring Dirk Bogarde, Despair adapts Vladimir Nabokov’s novel of the same name relatively faithfully as… Read more »
Rex: A Dinosaur’s Story
Deep inside of a mountain, in an ancient Mu Temple, is a perfectly preserved dinosaur egg. Paleontologist Akiyoshi Tateno (Tsunehiko Watase) recovers the egg on an expedition and brings it… Read more »
