Jurassic World Dominion
Supposedly the franchise that began with the groundbreaking cultural touchstone Jurassic Park (1993) has reached its conclusion with Jurassic World Dominion (2022). In this final chapter the leads of the… Read more »
Vamps
Amy Heckerling’s Vamps (2012) is a horror-comedy that looks on the bright side of its inherent genre tropes. Vamps looks at Larraz’s Vampyres (1974) and Rollin’s Perdues dans New York… Read more »
I Start Counting
David Greene’s belatedly en vogue film I Start Counting (1969) isn’t so much a coming of age picture as it is a meditation on the role that imagination and fantasy… Read more »
Ladies They Talk About
Nan Taylor (Barbara Stanwyck) is beautiful, sexy, and a hard as nails criminal who doesn’t suffer fools lightly. She gets pinched pulling a bank job with her pal Lefty (Harold… Read more »
Dirty O’Neil
Dirty O’Neil (1974) is a film of dramatic tonal shifts. While these variations in tone are all firmly planted in the sphere of the exploitation film it doesn’t diminish their… Read more »
Privilege
Privilege (1967) was Peter Watkins final film made entirely in England. After making the films Culloden (1964) and The War Game (1965) for the BBC, Watkins was given the chance… Read more »
Summer Days, Summer Nights
Edward Burns’ film Summer Days, Summer Nights (2021) follows the tradition of Dazed & Confused (1993), American Graffiti (1973), The Last Days Of Disco (1998), and Adventureland (2009). Burns’ film… Read more »
Vicious Lips
One of my favorite sub-genres of the eighties is the science fiction musical. Vicious Lips (1986) is a classic installment along with Forbidden Zone (1980), The Return Of Captain Invincible… Read more »
Morgiana
A Gothic tale of poison and plots, Morgiana (1972) is another dark rumination on the failings of the human spirit by provocateur Juraj Herz. Based on a work by Russian… Read more »
Lost & Delirious
A modest hit at the Sundance Film Festival, Lost & Delirious (2001) is a Canadian coming of age picture that features a handful of stars before they became famous. Directed… Read more »
