Django Unchained
Quentin Tarantino‘s love for Spaghetti Westerns is well-known. Time and again, elements of Spaghetti Westerns have found a reference in his works. For instance,...
Category: Reviews
Reviews of films and television formats. Short or long.
Elevator to the Gallows
“Crime doesn’t pay” is a well-defined trope explored in the world of cinema. A simpler examination of this trope could be in form of...
The Final Countdown
While US Senator Chapman (Charles Durning), his love interest and secretary Laurel Scott (Katharine Ross) and an advisor take a break from politics on...
Two Evil Eyes
In 1990, a horror anthology movie came out that re-united two grand masters of the genre: Dario Argento (Opera) and George A. Romero (The...
Psycho II – How Awful about Norman Bates
Psycho II begins with the Bates Motel sign switching to ‘Vacancy’ and the famous shower sequence from its predecessor playing out in all its...
The Trouble with Norman Bates – Hitchcock’s Psycho
Works of fiction have a way of disassociating from reality and creating their own worlds. There is a distance between real world and make-believe...
The Suspect
The Suspect is not an arthouse action movie in the style of A Bittersweet Life (Jee-woon Kim, 2005) or The Man from Nowhere (Jeong-beom...
Tae Guk Gi (Brotherhood / The Brotherhood of War)
My one year sojourn in Korea gave me a chance to experience Korean culture and movies first hand. Koreans are quite movie crazy, and...
The Man from Nowhere
Not the movie from the brothers, but a Korean action movie from 2010 that was immensely successful on the home market. It made a...
Heroes Shed No Tears
Heroes Shed No Tears (Ying xiong wu lei) is a 1986 actioner by John Woo, and probably among his least well known films. Woo’s...
