Caravaggio
A few years ago I was at Comic Con. I shopped, I saw friends and I took in a few panels. One of these panels was with Sean Bean. When… Read more »
A few years ago I was at Comic Con. I shopped, I saw friends and I took in a few panels. One of these panels was with Sean Bean. When… Read more »
When Roland Joffé made The Mission (1986) he was at the height of his power having won tremendous acclaim for his film The Killing Fields (1984). On the basis of… Read more »
La femme publique (1984) is a film about a woman drawn into two self-destructive relationships with men who are corrupted from within by their vanity and their own hunger for… Read more »
Claire Denis’ has given us some of the best films about French colonialism in Africa. Chocolat (1988), her directorial debut, inaugurates her career long investigation into what imperialism meant and… Read more »
One often hears rock musicals criticized for being nothing more but a loose thread of a plot stringing together a series of disparate music videos. Of course this isn’t always… Read more »
I went into The Barbarians (1987) expecting something like The Seven Magnificent Gladiators (1983) but with a little more gore and sleaze (which one expects from Canon Films) but The… Read more »
Like so many of Pierce Brosnan’s pre-Bond films, The Heist (1989) is a lot of unpretentious fun. The Heist isn’t as good as Taffin (1988), as sleazy as Victim Of… Read more »
If you’re the best there is they never would have invented the wheel. The best Schwarzenegger films always have a bit more to them than just the muscle of action… Read more »
Critics often talk about films as being “harrowing” or “transcendent” as if these traits were something that serious cinema should aspire to. All the while these same “harrowing” and “transcendent”… Read more »
I’m really glad that Kino-Lorber have continued to release quality home video editions of overlooked and largely forgotten titles like Fred Walton’s The Rosary Murders (1987). Films like The Rosary… Read more »