Brotherhood Of The Wolf
Brotherhood Of The Wolf (2001) is about Grégoire de Fronsac’s (Samuel Le Bihan) investigation into a series of mysterious animal attacks during the reign of Louis XV. Aided by his… Read more »
The Sign Of The Cross
Cecil B. DeMille’s The Sign Of The Cross (1932) is one of the most infamous of Hollywood’s pre-Code era. In a film that owes more than a little to Henryk… Read more »
Nowhere To Run
Jean-Claude Van Damme movie isn’t about cinematographic innovation and nobody has ever watched his movies with that in mind. A Van Damme movie is about corny one-liners, escapism and most… Read more »
Woyzeck
Werner Herzog’s Woyzeck (1979) adapts Georg Büchner’s nineteenth century play as an excruciatingly close-up look at a man’s psychological deterioration. Herzog shot the film immediately after wrapping Nosferatu Phantom der… Read more »
Ride Lonesome
In the year 1959 two of the greatest low budget westerns ever made were released. These are films of great narrative economy, visual minimalism, and aesthetic precision that looked to… Read more »
Everything Everywhere All At Once
It’s become increasingly rare that a Hollywood blockbuster is as intelligent as it is funny and as visually imaginative as it is deeply moving. Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s (stylized… Read more »
Dream Lover
Nicholas Kazan, the son of Hollywood royalty, is better known for being a screenwriter than a director. Kazan has penned the scripts for Bicentennial Man (1999), At Close Range (1986)… Read more »
The Lost City
In promoting her latest picture actor and producer Sandra Bullock has, while defending her modestly budgeted romantic comedy, attacked the major studios in Hollywood. Bullock makes the case that her… Read more »
Cloak & Dagger
Richard Franklin’s film Cloak & Dagger (1984) very cleverly takes a cookie-cutter Cold War espionage narrative and replaces the usual square-jawed hero with a little boy. It’s a rough and… Read more »
The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
Rynn (Jodie Foster), an orphan, lives alone, carrying on the charade that her late poet father is still alive. On her thirteenth birthday (which also happens to be Halloween night),… Read more »
