Reel Redemption: The Rise of Christian Cinema (2020)
Hollywood and religion don’t often mix. However, many of the most successful movies of all time have been faith-based. Writer and director Tyler Smith explores that holy — and at times unholy — union of the sacred and the secular in the film industry. I was surprised at how even-handed this film was, even taking time […]
Two Ways to Go West (2020)
After testing his sobriety at a bachelor party on the Vegas strip, a recovered drug addict and former TV star learns that dealing with his childhood friends and girlfriend may be what causes him to relapse. He’s not leaving the room and neither are they, so something has to happen. This movie was directed by […]
Deany Bean is Dead (2018)
Deanna Locke (Allison Marie Volk, who also wrote and produced this) has lost her fiancee and is dealing with a boss who abuses her. She feels like no one loves her, so she ends up offing her boss and showing up at her ex’s engagement party with the body in the trunk in an effort […]
It Happened In Athens (1962)
Andrew Marton had an interesting career. Sure, he made The Thin Red Line, but he also made a Soupy Sales vehicle Birds Do It and even had his name taken off the movie Demon of the Himalayas by Joseph Goebbels because he was Jewish. As for his second unit work, he filmed the iconic chariot race in Ben-Hur and the opulence […]
The Wild, Wild World of Jayne Mansfield (1968)
Under the working titles Jayne Mansfield Reports, Mansfield Reports Europe and Mansfield By Night, this mondo was shot from 1964 to 1967 as Mansfield toured Europe. It has to be a mondo, because the movie really is all over the place, with the star meeting Italian roadside prostitutes, running from the paparazzi and attending the Cannes […]
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