It’s been a few months since there’s been something new on shadowswriter. I apologize. Between Covid weirdness and the launch of a new online side-gig, http://www.cinepostergallery.com (vintage film posters), I took my eye off the […]
Author: Kevin Leicinger
Lee chang-Dong Movies and why you should watch them
PARASITE by Bong Joon-ho deserves every bit of praise and attention it got. But there is another filmmaker from South Korea that film fans should become familiar with. His name is Lee Chang-dong. Lee Chang-dong […]
Hitch-Hike: The exploitation film that accidentally became a great crime drama
All of the elements were there. You had Corinne Clery, a beautiful actress who had shot to fame in the softcore S/M sensation THE STORY OF O. You had a script involving kidnapping and sexual […]
The Future is a State of Mind (and good film locations)
As anyone who has ever looked at this site previously knows, I am a huge fan of 60s and 70s sci-fi. One of the reasons I like it so much, even the ones without great […]
Godard Posters
I’ve already written about how some of my attraction to Godard is purely superficial. The look of them. The actors and actresses. The sheer cool factor. There’s more to them than that, obviously. But to […]
Kaiju Movies Without Godzilla in Them
Godzilla is the King of the Monsters in more ways than one. However, there are a lot of fantastic Kaiju movies without Godzilla in them. Even narrowly defined as giant monster movies specifically from Japan, […]