NIPPON NOIR: I AM WAITING (1957)

In recent years I’ve seen a critical push to apply familiar terms like Film Noir to all manner of Japanese … More

Everyone’s Gone Crazy: VIOLENT COP (1989)

“Beat” Takeshi Kitano has been making headlines recently. Late last year the 70-year-old Japanese filmmaker, actor, author and entertainer was … More

I first became familiar with Chris D.’s (Dejardins) writing in the early 1990s thanks to his work for a small-press … More

After reading and writing about Peter H. Brothers’ book Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men: The Fantastic Cinema of Ishiro Honda … More

TCM is celebrating Mother’s Day (Note: this was originally published in 2014) with a great program of classic films showcasing … More

A beautiful young woman named Sapphire (Yvonne Buckingham) has been murdered. Her bloodied corpse was found in London’s Hampstead Heath … More

“Something mighty there is inside a man that takes him from being the youngest of 15 children raised in Kansas … More

The League of Gentlemen (1960) contains one of my favorite moments from postwar British cinema; a group of ex-soldiers carrying … More

While looking through the collection of Joseph Losey films currently available to stream on FilmStruck I was inspired to revisit … More