Baffled!
Tom Kovack (Leonard Nimoy) is one of the fastest, most reckless race car drivers around until he suddenly spins out of control. It turns out that Kovack is suddenly experiencing… Read more »
Tag: television
Landscapers
In 1998 Susan Edwards (Olivia Colman) and her husband Christopher (David Thewlis) murdered Susan’s parents and stole £300K from them. They spent this money living abroad in Paris on Hollywood… Read more »
Band Of Brothers
Band Of Brothers (2001) is now twenty years old. When it first aired on HBO Band Of Brothers epitomized the movement towards the cinematic in American television that had begun… Read more »
Running Delilah
After directing such acclaimed cult classics as Link (1986) and Roadgames (1981), Richard Franklin transitioned to television, first in America and then in his native Australia. One of Franklin’s American… Read more »
The Sign Of Four
The Sign Of Four (1987) is the first of the Sherlock Holmes television movies helmed by John Hawkesworth for Granada Television. The Sign Of Four corresponds to the end of… Read more »
Martha
Martha (1974) is one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s most disturbing cinematic creations. Made for West German television, Martha is a startling look at the possessive nature of marriage told in… Read more »
Buffalo Soldiers
I was pretty excited when I saw that the Criterion Channel would be streaming Buffalo Soldiers (1997) as part of their Black Westerns series. I can remember when this movie… Read more »
The Heist
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 »
Mildred Pierce
Todd Haynes has tried his hand at a variety of styles and narrative approaches. From Poison (1991) to I’m Not There (2007) his cinematic style has proven to be as… Read more »
The Niklashausen Journey
As is often observed, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s filmography, consisting of forty feature films, makes it difficult to critically appraise all of his films. Many times films are either over looked… Read more »
