THE RESPONSIVE EYE OF DEPALMA PT. 4: Mission: Impossible
In the 60s Mission Impossible TV program, Martin Landau starred as IMF super agent Roland Hand and Peter Graves played Jim Phelps, his main...
Category: Reviews
CRIMEWATCH: Carlito’s Way
10 years after working together on the crime classic Scarface (1983), Brian DePalma and Al Pacino reunited for another crime film/character study called Carlito’s...
THE RESPONSIVE EYE OF DEPALMA PT. 1: CARRIE
Ever since first seeing Brian DePalma’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Carrie (a tale about a girl with supernatural mental powers), it has...
Dreaming in Neo-Noir: Ridley Scott’s BLADE RUNNER
Ridley Scott’s visionary science fiction masterpiece Blade Runner (1982) was based on the Phillip K. Dick novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” When...
Robert Mulligan’s To Kill A Mockingbird
In 1962 Harper Lee’s best selling classic American novel “To Kill A Mockingbird” became a feature film. Director Robert Mulligan and Screenwriter Horton Foote...
David Lynch’s DUNE
“It took DUNE about nine minutes to completely strip me of my anticipation. This movie is a real mess, an incomprehensible, ugly, unstructured, pointless...
Judgement at Nuremberg – A Nation on Trial
Being quite interested in the History of World War II, the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, some questions always used to cross my mind....
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....
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...
