Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of The Girl on a Motorcycle originally ran as a home video review. Girl on a Motorcycle opens with a rousing, spirited credit sequence, horns giddily blaring in...
Borgman opens with three men, including a very angry-looking priest, who head into the woods heavily armed. They arrive at a spot in the middle of nowhere and start stabbing a giant stake into a hollow place under the ground. This...
Stranger by the Lake takes place entirely at a lakeside beach where gay men cruise for sex. The nude bodies of the beach’s inhabitants become a commonplace sight as they swim, sunbathe, and stroll through the nearby woods in search of...
The protagonists of the Norwegian horror film Thale are old friends who are employed cleaning up crime scenes. As the film opens, they are scrubbing away the blood and brains of some poor dead soul after, one presumes, the cops...
There’s nary a special feature to be found on this 2-movie disc of Hostel and Hostel: Part II, but, if I may suggest one, having some kind of a shuffle setting which played a random chapter from either movie for...
As the title indicates, Missing in Action 2: The Beginning is a prequel to the Chuck Norris vehicle, Missing in Action, and, in the interest of full disclosure, I’ll confess I’m entirely unfamiliar with the first film save for glancing...
Girl on a Motorcycle opens with a rousing, spirited credit sequence, horns giddily blaring in the score and the names of cast and crew whooshing along with shots moving low and fast on an empty road (not nearly as technically...
Killer’s Moon is a peepshow, first and foremost, a threadbare cinematic excuse to peek under the nightgowns of a few young women and then move on with your life and forget about it. I’m sure that the intended effect was...
As the title would suggest, Jess + Moss zeroes in on the relationship between its two main characters, putting the titular pair under microscopic scrutiny. Jess is a girl out of high school who still behaves like a young child and Moss is a...
While it is an unrewarding film, Summer Holiday earns some measure of goodwill for its restrained, honest depiction of the confusion and unease that can nearly destroy a marriage when one of the partners is at a turning point in their life. ...
