Review

When “Caligula” arrived in theaters in 1979, it came in on a tidal wave of hype, most of it on the negative side. The production of Penthouse Magazine publisher Bob Guccione’s grand experiment in creating an adult film that included the elements innate to a typical Hollywood spectacle was filled with such strife that both […]

As confronting or narrating the rem-coms context, some people find performance difficult as in posing to be someone or something that they are not. Numerous strategies exist where people are actors in disguise, people switch accents, and all reasonable gestalts are resorted to. At times, such characters do indeed, for instance, Curtis in Some Like

To kick off the Hangman, a flashback is provided linking the imagery to Fulci’s movie, The Beyond. The link recalls that there are seven gates to hell and one of these could be the one that West Virginia is trying to deny the New Orleans hotel trials that were concerned with the area beyond the

More than 900 days since Russia first launched its invasion and unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine, aimed at annexing territory and erasing Ukrainian identity, the conflict rages on but in terms of achieving his strategic objectives, President Vladimir Putin has already lost. In seeking to topple Ukraine’s democratically elected government, dismantle its statehood, and

Congressman Jamie Raskin states at the beginning of the documentary about the January 6th Insurrection ‘The Sixth’ that “Sometimes the truth is like a second chance”. This second chance is like an equalizer for freedom, human rights, and democracy in the US. But the context accompanying Raskin’s interview is at times pretty sobering. On the

The Last Seven combines an apocalyptic fantasy thriller with a hint of a mystery film. William Blake wakes up on the street of a deserted London, with seven million people mysteriously vanishing. While he is scared, angry, and confused, he sets out to discover the truth. Over the course of his journey, he finds six

The irony is that in Megalopolis the author, Francis Ford Coppola, is also at liberty to define Roman history, US history, Rivalry and Cooperation in Politics, Urbanism, Technology, Love, marriage, etc in the simplest way possible. Megalopolis is what is called a movie directed by otherwise Francois Ford Coppola, who also happens to have been

“Gates An Urban Horror Film, written and directed by Stephen Hall story by Tim Reynolds. Somewhere in London (1890s) a serial killer is sentenced to die in the electric chair, but he puts a curse on the whole prison before he dies. The cast includes John Rhys-Davies, Michael Yare, Elena Delia, David Pearse, Peter Coonan,

It is challenging to identify a movie in recent memory that does encompass an instance of death. In the first place, it can be said, perhaps with some justification, that even works of completely different genres such as the thriller Kill Bill or drama Steel M, to quote Ingmar Bergman for the sake of moderation

House of Shadows is a flick made in Britain and was released in the Fall of 2020. Based on the cover of the DVD, one could assume that the picture was taken from a traditional english mansion in the south of Spain, which is a misconception because the majority of the movie is actually set