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…
Blurring the line between the earthly and the sublime, French director Albert Lamorisse’s works often show his characters, both children and animals, transcending the physical limitations of the world. Such is 1956’s The Red Balloon, a charming, whimsical, if slight…
One of the first submarine movies, 1958’s Run Silent, Run Deep still shines more than sixty years after its release. Burt Lancaster stars as Lt. Bledsoe, a man ready to take command of his own sub. At the last minute,…
A late noir, 1959’s Odds Against Tomorrow puts aside the femme fatales and husbands in distress in favor of an apparently simple crime—robbery for the sake of acquiring some much needed cash—and taps into the racial unease of the era…
Directed by Peter Hyams, 1986’s Running Scared is the story of two Chicago southside police detectives, Ray Hughes (Gregory Hines) and Danny Costanzo (Billy Crystal). They tend to bend the rules a bit, but get the job done. They’re out…
Based on the unfinished F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same name, 1976’s The Last Tycoon marks the first time Robert De Niro played an even remotely likable character. Set in the 1930’s, the film follows Monroe Stahr (De Niro,…
Phil Smoot’s second film as a writer-director released in 1985 (and apparently his last), The Dark Power once again features Lash LaRue, this time with his famous bullwhip in hand. When an American Indian medicine man dies, a group of…
The master of the whip Lash LaRue returns, this time to battle aliens. For the uninitiated, LaRue made a name for himself starring in a series of B-movies in the 1940’s and 1950’s whose trademark was his bullwhip. A love…
The first release in the Kino Cult line, Lorna the Exorcist from Spanish maverick Jesús “Jess” Franco was his fourth film of 1974. As only Franco can do, Lorna the Exorcist is both among his most revered and reviled works….