I am just not feeling it. Christmas this year is just a non-event. I mean, I live in L.A. where Christmas is ALWAYS a non-event but this year is ridiculous. As I write this, Los […]
Category: movies
Criterion Does Right by Wong Kar-Wai
As any of you who have read my previous post on Wong Kar-Wai know, I am a huge fan. Which is why I was thrilled when Criterion finally announced a new boxed set of Wong […]
Posters: The Real James Bond
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 […]
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 […]
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