A beautiful but spoiled young woman named Jessica (Blanca Marsillach) is deeply in love with her saxophonist beau Johnny (Stefano Madia) and the couple regularly have sex in the strangest of places and the strangest of ways, even using his…
Starring Lindsay Lohan, Mean Girls is considered by many to be the best film of her career to date. Subsequent personal problems and brushes with the law made her a and a rare sight on the big screen in recent…
Shot in black and white, and steeped in realism, director Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine (“Hate”) is often thought of as France’s answer to Boyz N’ the Hood. Showing gun fights, riots, police brutality, and gang warfare, this sprawling urban drama…
Released just prior to Thanksgiving 1981, Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker came and went with little fanfare, despite having a paperback tie-in novel on the stands several months before it appeared in theaters. It was quickly repackaged on VHS by HBO…
Originally released in 2014 as a short film, Night Swim is a ridiculous story about a haunted swimming pool capable of killing people. Based on a short story by Rod Blackhurst, the scares are supposed to be central to the…
Well known for his critical documentaries on cinema—78/52 Hitchcock’s Shower Scene, Leap Of Faith: William Friedkin—Lynch/Oz writer/director Alexandre O. Phillippe examines filmmaker David Lynch, making the case that he pays tribute to The Wizard of Oz in nearly all his…
Largely known for documenting the LGBTQ movement in Los Angeles and Hawaii, the conventional success of films like Midnight Cowboy saw Pat Rocco aim for his own mainstream acceptance with 1974’s Drifter (also known as “Two Way Drift”). While not entirely…
Centered on the Von Erich family from Texas, The Iron Claw tells the story of Fritz Von Erich (Holt McCallany) a professional wrestler who desperately wants to be a champion. To that end, he molds his sons to follow in…
Anyone But You is a decidedly formulaic romantic comedy that takes its inspiration from Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Directed by Will Gluck (Easy A), there’s a level of raunchiness not often seen in mainstream rom-coms. Further, there is a…
Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion is an eerie reminder of 2020—fear, social distancing and death all around—despite being released nine years before the Covid pandemic gripped the world. Unlike most films about epidemics that simply create chaos and run with it, Soderbergh…