At Close Range
Although shot in Tennessee, At Close Range (1986) is a film that feels authentically Pennsylvanian. So many of the interior spaces look like the spaces that I grew up in…. Read more »
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Racing With The Moon
Before they were anybody Nicolas Cage and Crispin Glover starred in a musical pilot for a show that never got picked up titled The Best Of Times (1981). Richard Benjamin’s… Read more »
Licorice Pizza
Paul Thomas Anderson’s portrait of Southern Californian youth in the early seventies, Licorice Pizza (2021), is the filmmaker’s most tender film to date. Licorice Pizza doesn’t carry the tension or… Read more »
The Game
David Fincher’s second film The Game (1997) works better as an investigation of the psychological effects of what is essentially a mid-life crisis than it does as a thriller. The most… Read more »
She’s So Lovely
“Diseased. A freak. Totally screwed, put together with spit and shit and honey. Impossible to figure, nutty, mean, selfish, crazy, creepy, sick, weak. On a scale of ten million, she’s… Read more »
