Hell or High Water
Hell or High Water opens with a scene of two masked men holding up a small bank. It’s the first of a string of...
Author: Simon Gelten
City Heat
City Heat – Fedora hats, moustaches and an empty briefcase It is said that this film was born out of the desire of both...
Aliens
Rewatching Old Favorites – The Alien Quadrology: Part II – ALIENS (1986, Director: James Cameron) The premise of the first movie, a crew trapped...
The Dark Valley – Das Finstere Tal
In the heydays of the spaghetti western, Sergio Corbucci shot a couple of westerns in the Alpes, notably The Great Silence and The Specialists....
Alien
Rewatching Old Favorites – The Alien Quadrology: Part I – ALIEN (1979, Director: Ridley Scott) Christmas time is a great time to rewatch old...
Spectre
The latest James Bond “Spectre” opens with a scene set in Mexico City. Our hero, wearing a rather bizarre ‘skeleton suit’, is attending a...
Bruce Lee vs James Bond – The film that never was
Stoner (1974, Huang Feng) is a Kung Fu movie with a truly stunning production history. It was meant to be a (sort of) sequel...
Glory
Glory (Edward Zwick, 1989) tells the story of the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, one of the first major American military units made...
BONNIE & CLYDE: A Ride from Happiness to Hell
Working on a review of a western, The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, that was influenced by this movie (or at least its way of...
Frankie Went to Hollywood – Hard-boiled and Hitched
Of course we all know Frank Sinatra in the first place as a singer, but the small man with the tremendous voice was also a talented...
