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If you read my review of Sam Mendes’ 1917, you’d know I hardly ever go to the cinema unless the film piques my interest and at the beginning of March 2020, my husband and I went to watch an adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma. Our going out for a movie ended up being one of […]

In the words of Barbara Kruger of 1981, “You contrive elaborate rituals which permit you to caress the body of other males”. In the most extraordinary and intolerable ways possible, A Warrior’s Heart, meticulously performs those “elaborate rituals” through its brutish protagonist Conor, the short-tempered American high school student, and Kellan Lutz, the hot-blooded actor

As mundane as its title, with characters whose color-by-numbers personalities and motivations shift randomly to fit a predictable storyline, “A Family Affair” is a low-wattage rom-com. As with last month’s streaming romance “The Idea of You,” this film features a gorgeous Oscar-winning actress as a middle-aged woman falling for a much younger superstar performer, with

Penny Lane has long been one of our most fascinating documentarians in the modern era: her early works teetered between archival (“Our Nixon“) to anthological (“Nuts!”) to anthropological (“The Pain Of Others”). You never see her face or hear her voice; it’s just her ideas and her assemblage of footage into thoughtful, empathetic essays about

Owen Daybright is a ranch foreman for Colorado cattleman Arch Strobie, who happens to be Owen’s foster dad. While Owen is in the company of his foster brother Lee Strobie at a local saloon, they learn that Lily Fasken has given birth to a baby. The attending doctor explains that he was never summoned during

The first two-thirds of “A Sacrifice” are a largely leaden affair that offers viewers little that they haven’t seen before. It isn’t even awful so much as it is intensely forgettable the kind of film whose title eludes you even as you watch it. Unfortunately, it then proceeds to get infinitely worse in its final

In the following article, you can check the summary of B-Movie Director Roger Corman’s filmography first and then his B-movie style over the years because this was written before his 2023 updated biography came out. The 1975 film features actor David Carradine’s one of the most iconic performances. According to Roger, it was the most

We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us to experience life from perspectives outside of our own. The medium reveals the world and those who inhabit it with singular precision as it observes who we are with a magnifying glass. But while plenty of titles accomplish this effect, none have done

Over sixty years ago, directors Henry Hathaway, John Ford, and George Marshall joined forces to tell the story of America’s push toward the Pacific. “How The West Was Won” was a tremendous undertaking. Produced through the three-strip Cinerama process, it featured a deep ensemble of high-wattage stars James Stewart, Spencer Tracy, John Wayne, Gregory Peck,

Seven Mummies is a strange title for a movie. At first glance, one might assume it is a modern mummy movie, but in reality, it’s a take on the Western ghost town genre popularized in films like Ghost Town (1988), Phantom Town (1997), or Purgatory (1999). Oh, and if you want to check out my