…and Snake Plissken is the biggest bad ass you’re liable to meet. What else is there to know? Better question: do you even need to know any more? Sure, POTUS… View Post

…could see the cogs of plot and character development churning, predictively, long before the film ever reaches its denouement when Anna freezes over completely from a curse accidentally provided by… View Post

…you, and it wants to go about communicating it with the least amount of clarification possible. The film’s not a total mystery. Glazer divulges enough information so that you never… View Post

…her. She’s right away marginalized into a ditzy follower who coos after D. Even Akira, one of the greatest—if not the greatest—anime of all time treats its women as plot… View Post

…With a loose and limber cast, balletic camerawork, a colorful palette suffused with nothing but primary colors, and a script that spins with zippity-doo-dah dialogue, Charade’s an example of showmanship… View Post

…deluded myself into thinking I would be seeing something akin to John Carpenter’s low-budget classic Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), a film that has some common ground both thematically and… View Post

…Zampa played by Gilles Lellouche. My only knowledge of the French Connection comes from the William Friedkin film from 1971 so it was an interesting experience getting to learn more… View Post

…his better known films for a second time. By the time I had come up for air I had seen Fury, You Only Live Once, You and Me, The Return… View Post