Ferrari
Michael Mann has found his double in Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver). Ferrari (2023) is a portrait of a man driven to achieve perfection at the cost of relationships, humanity, and… Read more »
Michael Mann has found his double in Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver). Ferrari (2023) is a portrait of a man driven to achieve perfection at the cost of relationships, humanity, and… Read more »
Over The Edge (1979) is a film of rage on behalf of the marginalized and down trodden in our society. Although the rioters at the end of the film are… Read more »
Films we see as children shape our tastes for years to come as well as who we are. The films we see at an impressionable age stick with us. We… Read more »
It’s impossible to watch Ridley Scott’s film Napoleon (2023) and not compare it to Abel Gance’s epic masterpiece Napoléon (1927). By comparison Scott’s film feels heavy and directionless; a behemoth… Read more »
Charles Band’s production Cellar Dweller (1988) is the unlikely link between The Evil Dead (1981) and Castle Freak (1995). Cellar Dweller features a monster brought forth by a book who… Read more »
Barbara (1970) opens with a threesome on a beach at Fire Island. This sex scene, graphic for its time, is undercut by the audio that overlays it. As the images… Read more »
The Hunting Party (1971) opens with a scene of a steer being butchered cross-cut with a scene of sex. The hefer’s savage demise is equated with the violent sex that… Read more »
Runaway Daughters (1994) opens with a montage of black and white news footage and television commercials set to the tune “Let The Good Times Roll” before segueing into a drive-in… Read more »
The Inspector Wears Skirts (1988) was producer Jackie Chan’s response to the American Police Academy films. Instead of just replicating those films, The Inspector Wears Skirts focuses exclusively on women,… Read more »
Barbarella (1968), like its contemporary 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), has so often been imitated and referenced that it exists at a remove from its historical moment. It’s not that… Read more »