A Christmas Story Christmas
If you’ve ever wondered how the character Ralphie came to be narrating his A Christmas Story (1983), A Christmas Story Christmas (2022) sets out to explain that. Although it is… Read more »
Perfect Strangers
Perfect Strangers (1984) is a gritty and erotic character study of a mafia hitman torn between the promise of redemption and the corrupt moral code of organized crime from low… Read more »
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields
Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields (2022) is a Netflix original documentary series about the Calder Road murders. In the mid-eighties Clyde Hedricks murdered several young women and dumped their… Read more »
The Lady Professional
Best known for the films Hex (1980) and The Boxer’s Omen (1983), maverick auteur Kuei Chih-Hung began his career directing action films for Shaw Brothers, and The Lady Professional (1971)… Read more »
Persuasion
Persuasion (2022) doesn’t so much adapt Jane Austen’s novel as lift its basic plot as the framework for a synthesis of those two movies which have come to represent Austen’s… Read more »
Drums Along The Mohawk
John Ford’s technicolor frontier epic Drums Along The Mohawk (1939) offered Depression era audiences a sense of relief and inspiration. The film, set in New York during the Revolutionary War,… Read more »
Supergirl
In the years since its first release, Joel Schumacher’s Batman & Robin (1997) has gradually undergone a major re-evaluation. Much maligned in its day, Batman & Robin has become a… Read more »
Big Bad Mama
Angie Dickinson had been playing tough broads for most of her career; from Rio Bravo (1959) and The Killers (1964) to Point Blank (1967). For producer Roger Corman, Angie Dickinson… Read more »
Ishtar
By now the reputation of Ishtar (1987) is more widely known than the film is seen. The narrative of that reputation has changed over the intervening decades from one of… Read more »
Le soldatesse
Valerio Zurlini’s WWII epic Le soldatesse (1965) follows Lt. Martino (Tomas Milian) as he escorts a truck carrying prostitutes (including the iconic Marie Laforêt, Anna Karina, and Valeria Moriconi) from… Read more »
