Before I get too far into it, I have to share that I think a film like The Black Pirate is just going to be tough to review given the fact that I’m viewing it through a 2023 lens and I can’t help that. Every film included in the Great Movie Ride was added to […]
If I were asked to put together the perfect man night, by whom I don’t know, it would inevitably involve Jack Daniels, local Austin beef ribs the size of a cruise ship, and a ’70s revenge film. I love the ever-living hell out of movies like Death Wish, Lady Snowblood, Get Carter, and Thriller: A
Having no prior knowledge of Coyote before watching it, I have to say that I was very surprised, clearly an indie with a budget to match but the film puts you off kilter almost immediately and never lets you balance up throwing in some nightmarish visuals and some quiet shocks along the way. Coyote tells
This was a short and low-effort movie, so I’m going to be doing the same for the review. Hopefully, you’ll also be as amused as I was watching the film, and the title will also have grabbed your attention. Ironically, it took me longer to write and upload this blog post than it did for
“The island was teeming with life. And now it had a new kind of life,” writes Peter Brown in The Wild Robot. “A strange kind of life. Artificial life.” The extraordinary film adaptation of Brown’s The Wild Robot bursts with life and energy. It gives a jolt to studio animation in a sea in which
A tough American man (with a hint of the gangster) and a beautiful woman (foreign, exotic) are trapped in an Axis country before America’s entry into World War II. The bad guys are closing in but our heroes are about to get away. Then at the last minute he tells her to go on without
“To Live” is a simple title, but it conceals a universe. The film follows the life of one family in China, from the heady days of gambling dens in the 1940s to the austere hardship of the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. And through all of their fierce struggles with fate, all of the political
The Yakuza have hired hitman Takama Tsurugi (Sonny Chiba) to take care of two men, one who has gone to the police and another who has stolen a priceless statue. They both know too much and when they say “take care of” they mean eliminate, so off Tsurugi goes on his motorbike to get arrested
Who are we kidding? You know damn well what the score is going into any flick called Navy Seals Vs. Zombies, it’s going to be a low-budget action/horror hybrid with a smattering of D-list stars crummy effects, atrocious dialogue, poorly-staged fight sequences, risible acting, and no real point to it. And to be sure, director
Has an auteur ever turned on his characters and the worldview they triumph as sharply and definitively as Lukas Moodysson? The Euro-pop feel-goodies of his debut and sophomore productions may have been, in hindsight, an aesthetic blind alley (an emotionally mature film about a ramshackle socialist co-op that miraculously manages to eschew both quirky familial
