There is a portion of our readership, I trust, for whom the words “Jack Black, Kyle MacLachlan, and Cate Blanchett play witches” will be about all they need to read with regards to this movie. Reader, I’m here to tell...
The Predator is an alien hunter, an efficient killing machine that may toy with its prey, but strikes quickly and boldly when it senses a kill. It makes sense that the films would, to some degree, reflect this – you...
Quick Takes are brief capsule reviews, quickly written and quickly read. “We blew it,” Peter Fonda legendarily declares in Dennis Hopper’s landmark 1969 hippie movie Easy Rider. Somewhere along the way, Wyatt and Billy lost sight of whatever they were...
Quick Takes are brief capsule reviews, quickly written and quickly read. Victor Fleming’s Red Dust was released in October 1932; by that time the following year, he made a whole new picture starring the same actress that is a virtual...
Two girls wake up in bed together. One has drawn a penis on the other’s face. She’s also planned a vacation for her soon-to-be-17 companion. Even though they may just be sleeping together out of poverty, they can afford it...
There are two common complaints one usually has to endure from avid readers about film adaptations, and often film in general – that the cinema leaves nothing to the imagination and no room for the interior life. Books clearly do...
