Making Montgomery Clift (2018)
Classic film star and queer icon Montgomery Clift’s legacy has long been a story of tragedy and self-destruction — the slowest suicide in show business and a “tragic beauty” or “beautiful loser.” He was a gorgeous man whose twenty-some movies place him in the same rarified air of sex symbols like James Dean and Marlon […]
Knives Out (2019)
Rian Johnson has jumped genres throughout his career — the noir Brick, the comedy of The Brothers Bloom, the science fiction of Looper, the big blockbuster that was Star Wars: the Last Jedi and now Knives Out. He also helmed an episode of Breaking Bad that won him a directing Emmy. Since 2005, Johnson has had this Agatha Christie-influenced film in […]
Demons III: The Ogre (1989)
Following the success of the film Demons and Demons 2, Reiteitalia would announce a series entitled Brivido a Series Giallo, which would be five made-for-TV movies by Lamberto Bava. Of the announced five, only The Ogre, Graveyard Disturbance, Until Death and Dinner With a Vampire were made. The script, written by Dardano Sacchetti, is pretty much the original script for The House By […]
Demons 2 (1987)
Let’s just assume that the events of Demons actually happened, as this movie does. Released just seven months after the original, this movie opens with the residents of a high-rise apartment building watching a movie dramatization of the events that took place in that film. They watch as several teenagers trespass into the closed-off city that […]
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