“Dolemite” really is like if Ed Wood tried to make a Blaxploitation movie – a pimp, drug-dealing, comedian, kung-fu master tries to make a living in Hollywood despite the police and […]
Movie Review – “Dolemite” (1975)
Movie Review – “I Lost My Body” (2019)
“I Lost My Body” relishes in the bizarre, while also finding a strangely charming and unique idea in that same bizarre-ness. The film is about a young French boy, Naoufel, who […]
Movie Review – “1917” (2019)
While “1917” isn’t the first film to claim that it is all one shot (Hitchcock’s “Rope” comes to mind, as well as movies that actually are one take like “Russian Ark”), […]
Movie Review – “The Two Popes” (2019)
If there’s one moment in the 21st century that represents the drastic changing of philosophies and the conflict that brings, it has to be the transition between Pope Benedict and Pope […]
Movie Review – “Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” (1983)
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” follows the lives of four men in a Japanese prisoner of war camp – the Japanese commander (Ryuichi Sakamoto), his brutal sergeant (Takeshi), a British officer who […]
Movie Review – “Road to Utopia” (1946)
The “Road to…” movies are a rare breed of 1940s Hollywood cinema, desperately trying to get as much passed the censors as possible without ever breaking any codes. And while breaking […]
Movie Review – “Beneath the Planet of the Apes” (1970)
“Beneath the Planet of the Apes” is the most unnecessary bore I’ve ever seen. Not only does it repeat all of the same notes as the first “Planet of the Apes” […]
Top Ten Films of 2019
As we reach the end of another year, and even another decade as well, it is time as always to look back at what this year of cinema had to offer. […]
