Daughter Of Darkness
Kai-Ming Lai’s Daughter Of Darkness (1993) is one of the best known entries in Hong Kong cinema’s Category III pseudo sub-genre. Category III films encompass a wide variety of genres… Read more »
Maniac Cop
Lt. Frank McCrae (Tom Atkins) is hot on the trail of a serial killer whom he suspects is a cop. The first big break in the case comes when Officer… Read more »
Punisher: War Zone
If a good comic book movie is defined by its fidelity to the source material then Punisher: War Zone (2008) is a masterpiece. Low-budget and gruesome, Punisher: War Zone is… Read more »
Les liaisons perverses
Les liaisons perverses (1975) follows Hélène’s (Mona Heftre) affair with a photographer (Pierre Oudrey) who shoots pornographic layouts for adult magazines. Hélène’s bourgeois attitudes are quietly subverted as she embarks… Read more »
Seventeen
In the same decade that John Hughes redefined what it meant to be a teenager in movies Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines made their film Seventeen (1983). An exercise in… Read more »
The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent
At its core The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent (2022) is just like most Nicolas Cage movies made in the last ten years; a boiler plate thriller for the direct… Read more »
Der Schatz im Silbersee
Karl May looms large in the landscape of German culture. His nineteenth century western adventure novels, influential in their day, re-entered German popular culture in the post-war period as the… Read more »
The Private Life Of A Cat
The Private Life Of A Cat (1947) is a collaboration between Maya Deren and her husband Alexander Hammid. This twenty minute film is a document of their cats as they… Read more »
Skin Of Roses
Skin Of Roses (1978) is that classic kind of pinku film. It’s erotic and brazenly violent while also being beautifully photographed and well acted. Director Katsuhiko Fujii is best known… Read more »
The Changeling
The Changeling (1980) is considered one of the great haunted house movies, and for good reason. This little Canadian film boasts one of the most beautiful mansions of any film… Read more »
