Released in 1992, I remember Bad Lieutenant causing a sensation. Directed by Abel Ferrera, I remember feeling like it bordered on porn, with copious full-frontal male nudity, rampant drug use, masturbation, and a vile act of rape. Watching it again…
John Waters’ tribute to teenage delinquency of the 1950’s and Elvis Presley movies of the era, 1990’s Cry Baby remains his most successful film to date. With an outstanding lead performance from Johnny Depp and an excellent supporting cast, Cry…
One of the best noir films ever made, Chinatown is considered by many to be the finest film of the 1970’s. Though filming began without a finished script, screenwriter Robert Towne ended up crafting a truly original story; one that…
A bonafide movie star for over thirty years of his working life, Gary Cooper is considered by many film historians to one of the more iconic movie stars of all time. Fans loved him because they felt they could relate…
Paramount has released a UHD SteelBook packaging alternative for the 1994 Brandon Lee film The Crow, directed by Alex Proyas and starring the late Brandon Lee. The disc and digital content is identical to that found in the simultaneously released…
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…
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…