Spike Of Bensonhurst
In pre-Giuliani New York, Spike (Sasha Mitchell) is an up and coming boxer looking to climb the ranks of Baldo Cacetti’s (Ernest Borgnine) criminal organization. First Spike tries to get… Read more »
Le Gai savoir
Le Gai savoir (1969) finds Jean-Luc Godard in a period of transition. At the time Godard was becoming progressively more radically Marxist while, as an artist, he was attempting to… Read more »
Thor: Love & Thunder
Thor: Love & Thunder (2022) sees Taika Waititi return to Disney’s Marvel franchise as writer and director. This time out Waititi channels his love of 80s Steven Spielberg/Amblin family films… Read more »
Violent Cop
Released in 1989, Violent Cop heralded the arrival of Takeshi Kitano as a serious new cinematic force. Before making his debut as a director Kitano made a name for himself… Read more »
Caroline At Midnight
Produced by Roger Corman and released straight to video by New Horizons, Caroline At Midnight (1993) is one of the quintessential erotic thrillers of the nineties, albeit one of the… Read more »
Sie tötete in Ekstase
Sie tötete in Ekstase (1971), aka She Killed In Ecstasy, was Jesús Franco’s follow-up feature to Vampyros Lesbos (1971). Sie tötete in Ekstase was the last of three films that… Read more »
Disney Joins The Criterion Collection
In an email sent out to subscribers on September 8th, 2022, Criterion Collection announced that they will be releasing Andrew Stanton’s film WALL-E (2008) on 4K UHD. WALL-E will mark… Read more »
The Vengeance Of She
Hammer Films’ The Vengeance Of She (1968) picks up where their previous adaptation of H. Rider Haggard’s novel She left off. The film follows Carol (Olinka Berova aka Olga Schoberová)… Read more »
Pursued
Released the same year as Robert Mitchum gave his career defining performance in Jacques Tourneur’s quintessential film noir masterpiece Out Of The Past (1947), Pursued (1947) sees Mitchum appearing in… Read more »
Three Thousand Years of Longing
In Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) filmmaker George Miller indulges in sexual tourism and orientalism to adapt A.S. Byatt’s short story The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye. Miller’s investigation… Read more »
