My life at the movies.
Directed by Don Siegel. Starring Audie Murphy, Faith Domergue, Stephen McNally, and Susan Cabot.
Lee Marvin’s first credited feature. He plays a charismatic but brutish gambler serving up saloon atmosphere and convenient exposition. Continue reading...
Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Edward Andrews, and Vivian Nathan.
Burt Lancaster plays a district attorney prosecuting three Italian teens for murdering a blind Puerto Rican boy. Continue reading...
Directed by William Friedkin. Starring Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee, Sydney Tafler, and Dandy Nichols.
Disheveled, unemployed Stanley resides in a dingy boarding house in an English seaside town. The house’s owners view him as something of an adopted son, though he proves prone to mood swings and ramblings and seethes with angst. One day, two men named Goldberg and McCann arrive. They claim to want to board, but Stanley suspects something more sinister. Spoilers follow. Continue reading...
Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. Starring Warwick Davis, John Gatins, Lee Armstrong, and John DeMita.
After a pawnshop owner resurrects him, the titular Leprechaun terrorizes a Las Vegas casino. Continue reading...
Directed by Sergio Bergonzelli. Starring John Phillip Law, Gordon Mitchell, Brigitte Christensen, and Marco Di Stefano.
Most plot synopses of Blood Delirium would have you believe the film concerns a mad artist who believes himself a reincarnation of Vincent van Gogh. This proves as misleading as saying Big Trouble in Little China is about a trucker who believes himself John Wayne. Continue reading...
Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Jack Hedley, Almanta Suska, Howard Ross, and Andrea Occhipinti.
A maniac stalks the streets of New York City, killing attractive women by mutilating their breasts or genitals. A New York Police Detective recruits a professor of psychology to help him find the killer. Continue reading...
Directed by Ben Wheatley. Starring Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Harry Simpson, and Michael Smiley.
My favorite line in Kill List comes late in the second act, when one character asks another, “How long have we been working for you?” Continue reading...
Directed by Brandon Cronenberg. Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Mia Goth, Cleopatra Coleman, and Dunja Sepcic.
I wanted to like this more. Writer-director Brandon Cronenberg proffers an intriguing premise built upon themes he explored in Possessor, but the resulting work feels unsure. Spoilers follow. Continue reading...
Directed by David Cronenberg. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Léa Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, and Scott Speedman.
Sharing the same title as his 1970 feature, Crimes of the Future serves as a poignant conclusion to David Cronenberg’s career-long interrogation of our relationship with our bodies. Continue reading...
Directed by Álex de la Iglesia. Starring Antonio Resines, Álex Angulo, Frédérique Feder, and Juan Viadas.
In a dystopian near future, beautiful people rule the world. A group of outsiders plots terrorist attacks on the establishment. The group comprises conjoined twins, a deaf-mute giant with the mind of a toddler, a hunchback dwarf, a man in a full body brace, and a legless man who floats around in a hover-chair and keeps explosives strapped to his torso. They call themselves mutants, and their organization Mutant Action. Continue reading...
