Cast A Deadly Spell
Just a few years before reinvigorating the James Bond franchise with GoldenEye (1995) Martin Campbell directed the film Cast A Deadly Spell (1991) for HBO. Cast A Deadly Spell came… Read more »
Tag: Clancy Brown
Dumb Money
Craig Gillespie’s film of The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich, Dumb Money (2023), takes the familiar formal structure of his earlier film I, Tonya (2017), which itself is derived from… Read more »
Blue Steel
Kathryn Bigelow introduces her lead character, Officer Meg Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis), in the pre-credit sequence of Blue Steel (1990). In this sequence Officer Turner is reprimanded for not being… Read more »
John Wick: Chapter Four
One of the most unusual pleasures of going to the cinemas todays is to observe how far a studio will and can take a franchise. When John Wick (2014) came… Read more »
In Search Of Tomorrow
To the uninitiated or would-be cinephile there’s possibly something indispensable about David A. Weiner’s epic surveys of movies in the eighties. Weiner’s most recent addition to his growing catalogue is… Read more »
