Seven Women for Satan (1976)
By day a mild-mannered businessman, Boris Zaroff chases women across his country estate. Often, they are naked. Then, they get killed. Just like his father before him, he becomes legendary for his cruelty, which leads a young girl to his estate where she asks to see the famous Zaroff torture chamber. Can this be love? […]
My Little One (2019)
In our previous review of Pleased To Meet Me (2013), we discussed the analogous career travels of musician-actor John Doe and Sam Raimi-bred Bruce Campbell. Campbell resigned himself to being an actor that would never book a leading man role in major studio picture; that his career would consist of smaller support roles in A-List […]
Pleased to Meet Me (2013)
When it comes to musicians as actors, John Doe is the “Bruce Campbell” of the profession. Campbell has stated in interviews that he accepted his lot as an actor, in that he’d never be a leading man (after losing out to Billy Zane for The Phantom), instead getting smaller support roles in A-List pictures and […]
Georgia (1995)
This entry in our week of John Doe film reviews is a personal, family-affair project for its star Jennifer Jason Leigh (who made her debut in Eyes of a Stranger and captured young male hearts as Stacy Hamilton in Fast Times at Ridgemont High). Leigh produced the screenplay written by her mother, screenwriter Barbara Turner. […]
Wyatt Earp (1994)
In 1998: It was the battle of the Earth-destroyed-by-asteroid epics Deep Impact vs. Armageddon. In 2013: It was the battle of the terrorist-attack-on-the-White House epics Olympus Has Fallen vs. White House Down. And back in the early ’90s: It was the battle of the Gunfight at the O.K Corral flicks that were 1993’s Tombstone and […]
Pure Country (1992)
This attempt to transform country superstar George Strait into a chiseled-chin leading man is the feature film debut — and lone feature film — written by Rex McGee, through he returned with Where There’s a Will (2006), a cable movie directed by John Putch (who made his acting debut in the 1981 NBC-TV movie Angel […]
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