Hal Ashby’s 1973 comedy-drama/road movie The Last Detail has been one of my favorite films ever since I first discovered it. The premise is rather simple: Two Navy officers, Signalman 1st Class Billy “Badass” Buddusky (Jack Nicholson) and Gunner’s Mate 1st Class Richard “Mule” Mulhall (Otis Young) are given Shore […]
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Like many kids in the 80s generation, this film was my introduction to one of the coolest genre specialists working in movies: Paul Verhoeven. When I watched Robocop for the first time I knew it had something different going on. From the characters, to the setting to the humor, it […]
“I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it’s one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.” – Brian DePalma FILM REVIEW Brian DePalma’s 1981 conspiracy thriller Blow Out is probably more than anything […]
In some exciting home entertainment news, Brian DePalma’s 1981 conspiracy-thriller masterpiece Blow Out is coming to the Criterion Collection in April! John Travolta stars as Jack Terry, an exploitation film audio engineer who witnesses the assassination of a politician one night while recording some outdoor sound effects. When the story […]
“If its a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.” – Alfred Hitchcock “Visual imagery and sound are essential elements of film. Thats what makes cinema cinema. Most directors use their camera as recording instruments […]
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 been one of my most favorite works of cinema. A group of high school girls are playing volleyball in gym class. One girl in the corner […]