Category: Features
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July 4th 2020: Our Founding Father’s Edition
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Read more: July 4th 2020: Our Founding Father’s EditionToday we celebrate when the founding fathers cast off their imperial chains, but they didn’t break them. They took those same chains down to the auction block and wrapped them around their fellow human beings instead. It was a weird type of independence, their revolution. To become independent from a king, and abolish your taxes…
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Three Days of the Condor
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Read more: Three Days of the Condor1 hour 57 minutes, R for violence Fair Value of Three Days of the Condor: $6.00. This Sydney Pollack classic is a twisty and cynical spy film, one that prefigures much of the Jason Bourne films in the theme of ‘disavowed spy forced to live off his wits’. Crackling. Golden Age Cinema and the…
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Twenty Movies That Guys Love: Part 2
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Read more: Twenty Movies That Guys Love: Part 2Apocalypto (2006) Apocalypto is very different from the rest of the movies listed in this article and, frankly speaking, is rather different from practically any other movie you have watched before. It is a multi-genre film as it has elements of various different genres: starting from a historical movie and ending with a thriller. But…
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The Good, the Bad, and the Tender: An Analysis of the Humanity in Sergio Leone’s Cinema.
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Read more: The Good, the Bad, and the Tender: An Analysis of the Humanity in Sergio Leone’s Cinema.Smoke billows out of a destroyed confederate base. Lee Van Cleef’s angular faced Angel Eyes enters the wide frame, riding his obsidian black horse. He trots up a rocky hill, into the destruction. The late great Ennio Morricone’s haunting score starts silently, slowly rising throughout the scene. Angel Eyes leaves his horse behind, walking on…
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The Farmer’s Wife (1928)
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Read more: The Farmer’s Wife (1928)2 Hours 9 minutes Fair Value of The Farmer and His Wife: $0.00. In this early (1928) silent film, a young Hitchcock is both out of his element (mystery) and his medium (dialogue), and so this early drama is generic and basic, largely lacking in Hitchcock’s style. This is a snoozer. Summary of the Concept:…
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Vertigo (1958)
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Read more: Vertigo (1958)“The language of the camera is the language of our dreams.”-James Baldwin. No director was more fluent in that language than Alfred Hitchcock. Vertigo is the most conspicuous example of his fluency. Vertigo is a Pygmalion and Galatea story. The question in this case, who is Pygmalion and who is Galatea? When, is a better…
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20 Movies That Guys Love: Part One
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Read more: 20 Movies That Guys Love: Part OneNeedless to say, all guys are different and therefore like different things. However, there are also things that unite them all, and are intrinsic to almost all men regardless of their age, location, race, etc. This thing is the best guy movies of all time! This article seeks to provide you with a list of…
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Silver Bullet (1985)
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Read more: Silver Bullet (1985)At the risk of gaining a reputation as some sort of lunatic who insists on reading way too much into the subtext of popular 80s movies, the 1985 werewolf movie Silver Bullet is about priests molesting children. The “priest” in question here is actually a Reverend, which indicates he is not in fact a Catholic…
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Juno and the Paycock
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Read more: Juno and the Paycock1 hour 34 minutes Fair Value of Juno and the Paycock: $-5.00. 1920s knockoff Bernard Shaw misery porn that lacks in much of the style or timing that Hitchcock would later display. This early Hitchcock film shows why he went to thrillers and suspense- it’s artless and heartless. Summary of the Concept: A poor…
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Blood Dragon: The Video Game
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Read more: Blood Dragon: The Video GameTagline: Welcome to the Future. The Year is 2007. Entire Story in Fewer Words than are in this Sentence: Michael Biehn gives voice acting a go. Homoeroticism: Despite being a love letter to 80s action films, Blood Dragon has very little in this category. Our lead, Rex “Power” Colt, makes constant references to balls, but,…