There was a noticeable shift in American genre filmmaking as the New Hollywood-dominated 1970s faded and gave way to the more cynical zeitgeist of the…
Essential to the success of any siege film is some greater absorption of the concept of walls breaking down. One shudders just thinking about the…
Despite the French New Wave being widely considered obsolete by the 1980s, all of its directors remained active, finding varying degrees of success in adapting…
It’s hard to fathom the pressure that would come with getting discovered by David Gilmour. The idea that a member of Pink Floyd would stick…
Cinephilia is necessarily littered with the detritus of half-remembered viewing experiences, films only glimpsed from childhood in a perspective almost wholly incompatible with the viewer’s…
#105: Gymkata Download episode here. Listen to episode here. Episode Description: Just in time for Thanksgiving, we have the ultimate turkey for our listeners: 1985’s…
Director William Friedkin is known as a ‘big’ personality, loud and aggressive and bellicose. He’s been called a bully more often than not (Nat Segaloff’s…
OK, so things don’t really vanish anymore: even the most limited film release will (most likely, eventually) find its way onto some streaming service or into some…
Sion Sono fans, this is where it all begins. The wild, irreverent, iconoclastic, in-your-face style familiar to those who’ve seen even a few of the…
#9: Tiny Terrors: When Puppets (and Dolls) Attack Download episode here. Episode Description: November’s podcast comes late this year, for which we apologize. But hey, uh, hey.…