Rumor has it that Side Effects, the slinky, sexy new psychological thriller from busybody director Steven Soderbergh (Contagion, Haywire, Magic Mike) will be his final motion picture. If this is true, Side Effects is certainly a high note to bow out on. An edge-of-your-seat exercise that would please Alfred Hitchcock, […]
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In Los Angeles a young black woman named Fantasia (Cynda Williams), her lover Ray Malcolm (Billy Bob Thornton) and their cohort Lenny “Pluto” Franklin (Michael Beach) attack some of her friends who have some information about a drug dealer in the area. Ray holds one of them hostage at gunpoint […]
The late director Ted Demme’s final film turned out to be his best. It was a spectacular work of crime cinema based on the true story of George Jung, an infamous cocaine smuggler who rose to prominence in the 1970s and 80s. We are introduced to George in his childhood […]
If American Graffiti was the film that defined the sock hop/car culture/drive-in scene of the early 60s then Dazed and Confused (1993) is the film that represents the 70s in all its long haired, pot smoking, free-wheeling, bell bottomed beauty. In the early 90s Writer-Director Richard Linklater produced an indie […]
When it comes to furious flix, Terry Gilliam’s 1998 fantasy-adventure-comedy based on the legendary book by the late Hunter S. Thompson, ranks up with the very best. A visually thrilling work of pop cinema that’s filled with SFX, Fear and Loathing injects us into the phantasmic mind of Thompson’s alter-ego, […]
One of the most aesthetically captivating films to be released in the last few years is Gaspar Noe’s 2009 psychedelic melodrama, Enter The Void. From the start of the film which bombards you with a highly intense opening credits sequence you are plunged into an existential adventure the likes of […]