MR. NICE doesn’t feature a climactic fight. Jackie doesn’t take on the blond-haired guy that’s been chasing him throughout the picture, nor does he have an epic matchup with the big bad played by Richard Norton, the excellent Australian martial artist that Jackie had...
READ PART 1 HERE BERTRAND TAVERNIER: You're exagerrating! QUENTIN TARANTINO: I’m only talking about the sequences that include Jack Elam. He steals the spotlight from everyone else. He just needs to open his mouth and his replies kill. The best dialogue by Leigh...
I was very saddened to hear today that Bertrand Tavernier passed away. He was one of my favourite cinephile directors and his knowledge, breadth and passion for cinema could not be matched. I first learned about Tavernier when I stumbled onto his gigantic...
I don’t like making definitive “BEST OF” lists. I love making lists of things I love, or things I want to recommend, or things I should get to later (and never do), but I’ve never seen the point of carving something in stone, standing at the top of a hill and...
We explore the portrayals of J.C in THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, THE PASSION OF CHRIST, THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW, LIFE OF BRIAN, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST and many more. Become a Patreon subscriber for $5 a month and get an exclusive episode every...
My eyes lit up when I saw Money Train on the shelf of Bay Street Video’s Christmas section. “This takes place on Christmas?” I whispered excitedly under my breath. I had never seen it on any X-Mas Movie Lists before, and while it was a film I knew by name (having been...
I’ve been a fan of Director John Hyams work since his impressively mounted Universal Soldier: Regeneration. I was glad to see the world take notice with the release of his bonkers follow up Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, but instead of Hyams moving on to more...
We discuss the career of the incredibly prolific writer/director Rainer Werner Fassbinder and his films The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, and In a Year with 13 Moons. On this week’s Patreon episode, we discuss HOW TO START YOUR OWN FILM...
Do you need some horror film inspiration? Want to push your movie watching boundaries this October? Have you seen every film ever made and now swear "THERE IS NOTHING LEFT!!!!?" If the answer to any of the above is "Yes! Goddammit! Yes!", then I implore you to take...
For years, the original version of Doris Wishman's gonzo horror masterpiece A Night to Dismember was believed to have been lost. The legend goes that the original negative was destroyed in a fire, so Writer/Director Doris Wishman was forced to go out and shoot an...
