Recently, Sean Connery died. He was 90. But somehow it still seemed like a horrible shock. Just one more piece of bad news in a year filled with it. Of all the times we needed […]
Category: movies
Halloween 2020
The real world is such a horror show, who needs Halloween? But maybe that’s exactly why now is the time to face our fears or indulge in some flat out horror silliness to distract ourselves. […]
Rediscovering Kitano
Back, long, long ago, in a time before streaming, in an age when Covid wasn’t a word any of us knew, I became a fan of Beat Takeshi a.k.a. Takeshi Kitano. As someone into crime […]
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 […]
