L’exécutrice
L’exécutrice (1986) sees sexploitation superstar Brigitte Lahaie redefining audiences’ expectations by turning in a powerful and nuanced dramatic performance. To the uninitiated, Lahaie is best known for her appearance in… Read more »
Sister Street Fighter
Sister Street Fighter (1974) is the first in a series of films by Toei Company launched as a spin-off of the popular Street Fighter franchise starring Sonny Chiba. This first… Read more »
Rock & Rule
In the future, after a nuclear holocaust, anthropomorphic creatures have come to dominate the urban centers of the world. In the waste land left behind by humanity’s final wars, Mok… Read more »
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Cary Grant and Myrna Loy re-teamed for Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), a family comedy-drama about the anxieties of the post-war economic boom. Directing is none other than… Read more »
‘Doc’
Frank Perry’s revisionist western ‘Doc’ (1971) is about as unromantic a western as one could imagine. For plot, screenwriter Pete Hamill looks to the most famous gunfight in the history… Read more »
In Search Of Tomorrow
To the uninitiated or would-be cinephile there’s possibly something indispensable about David A. Weiner’s epic surveys of movies in the eighties. Weiner’s most recent addition to his growing catalogue is… Read more »
Frankenhooker
Frankenhooker (1990) is one of the seminal genre films of the nineties. It’s a low budget horror-comedy riff on Mary Shelley’s novel that has become one of the most popular… Read more »
Project A
If the most innovative and enjoyable aspect of Jackie Chan’s films is his fusion of silent era slapstick with martial arts fight choreography then it doesn’t get more fun than… Read more »
Investigating Sex
Alan Rudolph, like the character Edgar Faldo (Dermot Mulroney), attempts to rectify the abstract with the representational in his film Investigating Sex (2001). Based on Recherches sur la sexualite archives… Read more »
The Cat
The Cat (1992) is Lam Ngai Kai’s last film. In a way it is a fitting film to end the director’s career. All the hallmarks of Lam Ngai Kai’s inimitable… Read more »
