Dark Waters
Mariano Baino’s international co-production Dark Waters (1993) is the master of horror’s most accomplished film. Dark Waters sees Baino cohesively melding together disparate elements of the horror genre to successfully… Read more »
The Belle Starr Story
The Belle Starr Story (1968) is an early directorial effort from Lina Wertmüller before she found international success in the mid-seventies. This relatively early effort (which she directed under the… Read more »
009-1: End of the Beginning
Set in the future of an alternate reality where the Cold War never ended, 009-1: End of the Beginning (2013) tells the story of a cyborg super-spy, 009-1 (Mayuko Iwasa)… Read more »
Tiger On The Beat
Lau Kar-leung made a career out of directing action movies. He bagan his career working for the Shaw Brothers and ended up helming some of their most famous martial arts… Read more »
The Batman
I like Batman; though I haven’t really been invested in the comics since Grant Morrison ended his run in 2014. The rhetoric around Matt Reeves’ The Batman (2022) primarily focuses… Read more »
Sworn To Justice
Sworn To Justice (1996) sees the legendary Cynthia Rothrock cast as Janna; a psychologist with clairvoyant powers who moonlights as a vigilante. When Janna’s sister and nephew are brutally murdered… Read more »
Orca
Upon seeing Jaws (1975), producers Dino De Laurentiis and Luciano Vincenzoni set out to create their own aquatic monster movie, hoping to cash-in on a new craze. The resulting motion… Read more »
History Is Made At Night
No filmmaker in all of cinema could rival Frank Borzage as a portraitist of love and desire. Borzage’s films have the uncanny ability of wedding fragments of reality to the… Read more »
EuroTrip
Sometimes one hears things about a film dismissed a long, long time ago from a trusted source or friend and one decides to see that movie. This, for me, was… Read more »
Virus-l’inferno dei morti viventi
In Papua, New Guinea a series of secret chemical research facilities are covertly experimenting on ways of solving the problem of over population. When there’s an accident at one of… Read more »
