Climate of the Hunter (2019)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally reviewed this movie on December 31 of last year, but it’s finally coming out on streaming, so we wanted to remind you to check it out. It’s pretty awesome. Mickey Reece — who co-wrote this film with John Selvidge, has made two movies a year since 2008 and I haven’t seen […]
Sex, Drugs & Bicycles (2021)
This is a film that takes a look at Holland — its director Jonathan Blank also made 1994’s Sex, Drugs & Democracy — to ask a very important question: Is having month-long double paid vacations, no fear of homelessness and universal healthcare the nightmare we’ve been warned about? The country may be best known for its […]
THE EXCELLENT EIGHTIES: Act of Love (1980)
In between playing one of America’s most beloved teenagers and directing its favorite movies, Ron Howard took several against type roles. This is one such example, as he plays Leon Cybulkowski, who puts his brother Joseph (Mickey Rourke!) out of his misery as he asks to be killed instead of living out his life as […]
The Excellent Eighties: Reborn (1981)
Ah, Sam knows my Bigas Luna fandom*, as I gushed my philosophical wax over the majesty of Luna in our review of Anguish. Gracias, mi amigo: your X-Mas gift of film is enjoyed. What saddens me: that this, Bigas’s fourth directing effort — and his first English-language film (the second was Anguish) — ends up […]
THE EXCELLENT EIGHTIES: Saigon Year of the Cat (1983)
At the end of 1974, as American forces withdraw from Saigon, only a few CIA advisors remain. In this strange end of the war era, one of those advisors named Bob Chesneau (Frederic Forrest, who was in another better known Vietnam movie, Apocalypse Now) is having an affair with a bank analyst, Barbara Dean (Dame […]
The Excellent Eighties: Hard Knox (1984)
The joy of enjoying Robert Conrad as an actor is a case of you had to be there: if you weren’t, you missed out. Back in the day: we went gold, red and black because Conrad told us so. And we can remember those days thanks to Mill Creek rescuing this lost and forgotten TV […]
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