Waiting For Guffman
The mockumentary Waiting For Guffman (1996) is the film that established Christopher Guest’s modus operandi as a writer, director, and actor. Upon its release, Waiting For Guffman became an instant… Read more »
The Company Of Wolves
Angela Carter’s collection of short fiction stories The Bloody Chamber set out to re-tell a number of folktales and fairytales with their latent feminism reoriented to be central to Carter’s… Read more »
Backtrack
Backtrack (1992) opens with concept artist Anne Benton (Jodie Foster) witnessing a mob enforcer (Joe Pesci) executing a man at a refinery. On the run from the mob, Anne turns… Read more »
40 Pounds Of Trouble
40 Pounds Of Trouble (1962) was producer and star Tony Curtis’ passion project. Beginning in 1962 Curtis’ career began to wane and it was believed that 40 Pounds Of Trouble… Read more »
La polizia brancola nel buio
La polizia brancola nel buio (1975) opens like any second-rate giallo with a woman fleeing some unknown killer across the Italian countryside as her clothes fall off of her body…. Read more »
My Favorite Wife
After having been shipwrecked for seven years Ellen Arden’s (Irene Dunne) husband Nick Arden (Gary Grant) has had her declared legally dead so that he can marry Miss Bianca Bates… Read more »
The Molly Maguires
When I was in middle school and the curriculum turned towards our local Rust Belt history then it would be likely that the teacher would show The Molly Maguires (1970)…. Read more »
Call Me Tonight
The folks over at Bleeding Skull! have described the OVA Call Me Tonight (1986) as the “cute” Urotsukidōji (1989), and they aren’t wrong. But calling any thing “cute” in comparison… Read more »
La decima vittima
In the twenty-first century war and crime have been erased from society by the globally instituted “big hunt”. Mankind’s primitive, violent impulses are given expression in a game that is… Read more »
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) adopts its subjects modus operandi and applies it to the biopic. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story dismantles the tropes and narrative beats of films… Read more »
