17 Again
It’s true that the most unbelievable thing in a film about a man who turns into his high school self is that when Matthew Perry was 17 he looked like… Read more »
The Pom Pom Girls
It’s the start of a new school year at Rosedale High School in sunny California and football season is in full swing. The Pom Pom Girls (1976) follows Johnnie (Michael… Read more »
Sight & Sound Poll: 2022
It’s impossible to articulate how momentous it is that Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) topped the Sight & Sound poll of 2022. Over one thousand film… Read more »
Run Silent, Run Deep
Run Silent, Run Deep (1958) tells the story of the obsessive Captain, Commander Richardson (Clark Gable), who assumes command of Lt. Bledsoe’s (Burt Lancaster) submarine to exact revenge on a… Read more »
24 Hours To Midnight
Filmmaker Leo Fong had been acting in low-budget action films for roughly a decade before branching out into writing and directing. An accomplished martial artist, Fong’s films are characterized by… Read more »
La lama nel corpo
In a remote corner of the English countryside, Doctor Vance (William Berger) oversees an asylum and safeguards the tragic secrets of his past. But when a new nurse and an… Read more »
Black Adam
There hasn’t been a lot of love for Black Adam (2022). The casual fan of superhero comics doesn’t know who the characters in the film are and even more people… Read more »
Les Chiens
Alain Jessua’s film Les Chiens (1979) takes the paranoia inherent to the white bourgeoisie and carries it through to its natural fascistic conclusion. The xenophobia, racism, classism, misogyny and general… Read more »
Big Brown Eyes
Although he’s certainly best known for having directed some of the great western and adventure pictures of the classic studio era, filmmaker Raoul Walsh nevertheless excelled in the genre of… Read more »
The Daytrippers
Before breaking out with Superbad (2007) and Adventureland (2009), Greg Mottola wrote and directed the little indie comedy The Daytrippers (1997). The Daytrippers is a quintessential independent film of the… Read more »
