Category: Movies
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Written on the Wind (1956)
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Read more: Written on the Wind (1956)Sirk brings the immaculately overdone melodrama.
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Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
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Read more: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)If you are a fan of this site, it will go without saying that you are also a fan of sleazy, gritty 70s crime films. Well, folks, this is the one. Once you’ve seen Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, you have been to the top of the mountain
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Cocktail (1988)
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Read more: Cocktail (1988)Cruise will perhaps never equal the homoerotic explosion of Top Gun, but his indulgent turn in 1988’s Cocktail is close behind…
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Scenes From a Marriage
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Read more: Scenes From a MarriageAs one essay I read stated, Bergman has moved from “Does God exist? to Does love exist?”
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Back to Black
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Read more: Back to BlackI’m sure you’ve heard that question before, usually regarding sequels or remakes. Or maybe you heard it as a statement – “Nobody asked for this movie.” Or how about “who is this movie even for?”
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
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Read more: The Life and Times of Judge Roy BeanJohn Milius is a fascist. Zen fascist, if we’re a slave to accuracy, but self-described and self-appointed nonetheless, having spent an entire career of bearded bravado lecturing lesser mortals on their effete passivity in the face of jackboots, and cock-first supremacy.
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Gunga Din
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Read more: Gunga DinWhite Man’s Burden…
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The Wages of Fear (1953)
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Read more: The Wages of Fear (1953)Humanity is no match for the power of hunger.
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Viva Knievel! (1977)
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Read more: Viva Knievel! (1977)In the same year that Star Wars was shattering box office records and shifting the culture to a new dimension of merchandising, special effects, and unending Mark Hamill mania, an old icon was inhaling the fumes of a once proud career
