The Red Balloon
The Red Balloon’s dream opens with a boy (Pascale Lamorisse) descending into the panoramic view of fifties Paris. For a moment it seems like...
Category: Reviews
Reviews of films and television formats. Short or long.
Monday Morning
Monday Morning is a high school drama from 1990. Bobby Parker (Noah Blake) is new at his high school and struggles to fit in....
Highball
Highball is an episodic comedy by Noah Baumbach from 1997. The movie is about three parties that the young couple Diane (Lauren Katz) and...
Uncle Sam
Uncle Sam is a 1996 American black comedy slasher film directed by William Lustig (Vigilante, Maniac Cop), written by Larry Cohen (God told me...
Full Alert
Full Alert is a 1997 Hong-Kong crime-action movie by Ringo Lam. Inspector Pao Wai-Hung (Lau Ching-Wan) is caught in a race against time, as...
Iron Monkey
If martial arts movies or Hong Kong movies more generally are your thing, chances are you have heard of Iron Monkey. You might even...
Walk on the Wild Side
Walk on the Wild Side is a 1962 black and white drama by Edward Dymtryk starring Laurence Harvey. In the early thirties, Dove Linkhorn...
Blind Beast
Trying to increase my #Japanuary dosage just a little bit more (also see my recent review of Irezumi), I went for Blind Beast (Môjû)...
Suddenly
The most outstanding bit about Suddenly (1954, Dir. Lewis Allen) is its plotline. Gangsters led by Frank Sinatra’s John Baron hold up a family...
Irezumi
Irezumi (japanese for tattoo), also known as Kiss of the Spider Woman, is a drama from 1966 directed by Yasuzo Masumura (Blind Beast) based...
