The Films of Don Siegel: Charley Varrick
The 1970s was an incredible decade for cinema. One of my personal favorite films from that era is Don Siegel’s crime thriller Charley Varrick....
Category: Reviews
CRIMEWATCH: Face/Off
Q: What do you get when you put John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in a John Woo film? A: Some really great cinema! I...
CRIMEWATCH: The Sting
After working together on the smash hit western Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid (1969), Director George Roy Hill, Robert Redford and Paul Newman...
Bukowski: Born Into This
My first encounter with the late writer Charles Bukowski’s work wasn’t through his literature, it was from watching the film Barfly (1987). It was...
Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets
In 1973, a new director named Martin Scorsese arrived on the scene and came crashing through the door of cinema with a wildly different...
The Treasure of The Sierra Madre
Director John Huston’s 1948 masterpiece The Treasure of The Sierra Madre is a morality tale disguised as an adventure film. It opens in 1920s...
Valerio Zurlini’s Violent Summer
In the Summer of 1943 in the Italian town of Rimini, a group of teens welcome back their friend Carlo Caremoli (Jean Louis Trintignant)....
Akira Kurosawa’s SANJURO
Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune) is a ronin (renegade samurai) looking for food and money. He overhears a group of 10 samurai warriors talking and finds...
STYLE WARS
NEW YORK CITY, 1982, The war is on between graffiti artists known as “taggers”, “bombers”, “burners” and the police on the streets of the...
The Dude Abides: An Appreciation of The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski (1998) went from sleeper hit to a full fledged cult classic spawning all kinds of fan clubs and even a Lebowski...
