The Last Picture Show
The wind whips across a deserted street in a deserted town in a cold and bare Texas. A rusting pickup truck drives by, the...
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...
CRIMEWATCH: Short Eyes
Preceding Jamaa Fanaka’s critically acclaimed Penitentiary as well as the intense and influential TV event “Scared Straight,” 1977’s Short Eyes (prison slang for pedophile)...
Bone Tomahawk: 50 Furious Westerns Series
S. Craig Zahler‘s western BONE TOMAHAWK earned lots of great reviews over the last few days. That makes it even more unfortunate that the...
The western ain’t dead – Part II
In the early hours of this website, I published a small rant entitled “The western ain’t dead, damnit“. Pundits keep calling the Western a...
The Bone Tomahawk trailer is here
It took a while for it to surface on YouTube, but now it is here, the Bone Tomahawk trailer, with Kurt Russel, his beard...
September 2015 Highlights at the New Beverly Cinema
Quentin Tarantino re-opened the New Beverly Cinema as a celluloid-only picture house, so we are taking a closer look at some of the great...
An epic amount of chills and thrills await in Quentin Tarantino’s THE HATEFUL EIGHT
The Wild West will be getting a whole lot wilder in Quentin Tarantino‘s upcoming thriller THE HATEFUL EIGHT. The first inglorious trailer for the...
August 2015 Highlights at the New Beverly Cinema
With Quentin Tarantino re-opening the New Beverly Cinema as a celluloid-only picture house, we are taking a closer look at some of the great...
Tiny Hero, Giant Heart: Marvel’s ANT-MAN
Marvel Studios’ latest hit film is based on one of their earliest and lesser known characters. Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas) a brilliant entemologist/scientist...
