Yes, Madam
Asprin (Mang Hoi) and Strepsil (John Shum) have just robbed a corpse without knowing it. It’s also escaped them that, among their loot, is a valuable microfilm that the evil… Read more »
Holiday
In Holiday (1938) a working class Cary Grant gets engaged to a wealthy socialite played by Doris Nolan only to gradually realize that their ideologies are odds. As the life… Read more »
La región salvaje
Amat Escalante’s film La región salvaje (2016), or The Untamed in english territories, is a bizarre fusion of the domestic drama with erotic science fiction. Escalante transports Edo style erotic,… Read more »
Songs For Drella
After the sudden death of Andy Warhol in 1987, Julian Schnabel reunited John Cale with Lou Reed suggesting that the two musicians, formerly of The Velvet Underground, memorialize Warhol. The… Read more »
The Crazies
George A. Romero’s film The Crazies (1973), made on a shoestring budget, has found new renown and relevancy in the COVID age. Audiences who knew Romero only for his zombie… Read more »
Willy’s Wonderland
Willy’s Wonderland (2021) is really a film for people of a certain age. Willy’s Wonderland plays with the terror of what once was Chuck E. Cheese. This chain of restaurants… Read more »
Uptight
Uptight (1968) is one of the most criminally underrated pictures of all time. This reimagining of Liam O’Flaherty’s novel The Informer is so close to the reality of Fred Hampton’s… Read more »
Times Square
Times Square (1980) tells the story of two teenaged girls, the privileged Pamela Pearl (Trini Alvarado) and the street orphan Niky Marotta (Robin Johnson), who meet in a hospital ward… Read more »
Killer Nun
The legendary Anita Ekberg is Sister Gertrude in the infamous nunsploitation shocker Killer Nun (1979). Director Giulio Berruti litters the Hitchcockian labyrinth of a narrative with scenes of sensationalist violence… Read more »
Weird Woman
Weird Woman (1944) is the second and most highly regarded film in Universal Pictures’ Inner Sanctum Mystery series (based on a radio program of the same name). The films in… Read more »
