Milano calibro 9
Caliber 9 (1972), or in Italian Milano calibro 9, is Fernando Di Leo’s masterpiece of the Poliziotteschi genre. Caliber 9 is the first film in Di Leo’s Milieu Trilogy; a… Read more »
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle (2003), like its predecessor in 2000, takes the campy elements of the hit television show of the seventies and plays that camp ironically. Where the earlier… Read more »
The Two Popes
More than anything else The Two Popes (2019) is a stunning late career showcase for actors Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins. A majority of films based upon stage plays, in… Read more »
Spencer
Pablo Larraín’s film Spencer (2021) is a fictionalized account of Princess Diana’s (Kristen Stewart) Christmas with the royal family in 1991. Larraín’s film is a classic character study that charts… Read more »
Beautiful Wrestlers
Beautiful Wrestlers (1984) or Beautiful Wrestlers: Down For The Count is a Roman Porno film made at Nikkatsu studios. Beautiful Wrestlers was one of the earliest films made at Nikkatsu… Read more »
Vera Cruz
Vera Cruz (1954) is the second of two successive westerns that Robert Aldrich made for Hecht-Lancaster Productions at United Artists. At the time that Vera Cruz was made Lancaster was… Read more »
The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson’s latest feature, The French Dispatch (2021), is an anthology modeled on an issue of fictional magazine (whose name is shared with the film’s title) that itself is modeled… Read more »
Dune: Part One
Denis Villeneuve’s attempt at filming the allegedly unfilmable science fiction novel by Frank Herbert is something of a mixed bag. Dune: Part One (2021) takes itself very seriously, dispensing with… Read more »
No Time To Die
Like so many actors before him the time has come for Daniel Craig to close the book on James Bond. When Daniel Craig first appeared on screen in the classic… Read more »
WNUF Halloween Special
Chris LaMartina and company really whipped up something unique with WNUF Halloween Special (2013). Posing as a bootleg VHS of a public access television special from 1987, WNUF Halloween Special… Read more »
