Winter in the Blood is billed as a vision quest, opening with a young man, Virgil (Chaske Spencer), waking up after a bender in the same ditch his father died in. What it really is, however, is a complex layering...
The story itself is astounding. In the height of the continuing war between Israel and Hamas, Israel’s internal security agency, Shin Bet, scores one of the biggest coups of its history – the recruitment of a man on the inside,...
Memphis moves much like a city does, or perhaps as the kaleidoscope of the divided mind of its main subject, a version of Willis Earl Beal, the up and coming blues musician – a film splintered, divided against itself, showing...
Mohammad Rasoulof’s Manuscripts Don’t Burn ends with the following statement: “Due to censorship in Iran and in order to maintain the safety of the crew, all individuals who were involved in the making of this film have renounced from being named in the...
In a previous job, an annoying coworker often told me, citing Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket as proof, that a true anti-war film was essentially impossible, that to portray war in film meant to portray its excitement and drama and thus...
Considering the literally hundreds of spaghetti westerns made during the genre’s heyday, it’s rather shocking to reflect that it barely lasted a decade before the Western as a whole settled into a state of more permanent decline. Partially, this was...
From the Wikipedia – “The sake bomb or sake bomber is a beer cocktail made by pouring sake into a shot glass and dropping it into a glass of beer.” While one of the many ways several characters in Junya...
Many movies are found in editing. Some, however, remain hopelessly lost. Guilio Paradisi’s (credited as Michael J. Paradise) 1979 film The Visitor belongs very firmly in the latter camp, a confusing mess of a script made even more confusing by...
directed by Ridley Scott If horror is a genre about atmosphere then Alien stands as an all-time great amongst its peers. Ridley Scott’s masterpiece is one of the few science fiction films that actually feels like space – a cold,...
directed by William Friedkin The Exorcist is that rarity seemingly made just for movies – a pulp horror film with depth. Couched in the battle between God and the Devil, with an old priest and an unleashed horror as stand...
