Fire & Ice
Ralph Bakshi’s film Fire & Ice (1983) came out at the height of popularity for the fantasy film genre. Bakshi, realizing the limitations of special effects of the day, seized… Read more »
Ralph Bakshi’s film Fire & Ice (1983) came out at the height of popularity for the fantasy film genre. Bakshi, realizing the limitations of special effects of the day, seized… Read more »
Of the films produced in the early eighties inspired by the “Cropsey” legend, Madman (1981) is the most unique and, in many ways, the most effective. The film opens on… Read more »
Peter Hyams’ film The Presidio (1988) opens with a murder on an army base in San Francisco and then proceeds into a full blown car chase. Hyams directs the chase… Read more »
The Burning (1981) is one of the sleazier summer camp horror films. This infamous entry into that horror sub genre was conceived by the despised Harvey Weinstein as a means… Read more »
Continental Divide (1981) has become an overlooked chapter in the career of its screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan. Kasdan wrote the film while his previous script, The Bodyguard (1992), was caught in… Read more »
The Return Of Captain Invincible (1982) combines the wit and counterculture savvy of Richard O’Brien with Philippe Mora’s distinctly Australian view of American imperialism all within the aesthetic milieu of… Read more »
Dr. Caligari (1989) picks up narratively and aesthetically where Robert Wiene’s masterpiece of silent cinema, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920), left off. The expressionistic stylization of Wiene’s film that… Read more »
O-bi, o-ba: Koniec cywilizacji (1985) remains the most popular and critically acclaimed film of Piotr Szulkin’s cycle of post-apocalyptic science-fiction films. Szulkin paints his Kafka-esque portrait of a nuclear holocaust… Read more »
Dennis Meechum (Brian Dennehy) is an old cop who has spent a decade of his career moonlighting as an author of true-crime and detective novels. After his wife dies, Meechum… Read more »
Glory (1989) dramatizes Col. Robert Gould Shaw’s (Matthew Broderick) command of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. The 54th was one of the first regiments composed… Read more »