 | | | A completely charming movie. Following the lead of George Cukor's THE WOMEN (1939) DIRECTOR Francois Ozon shows us a wholly feminine world where men are referred to but not seen. 8 Femmes is a murder mystery and a musical of sorts starring ... (See full description) |
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 | | | Former AVENGERS director Robert Fuest (The Devil's Rain, The Final Programme) perfected the horror/comedy in these two endearing and extraordinarily visually stylish movies, now available inexpensively on one disc. This was the role of Vinc... (See full description) |
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 | | | Ultra-stylish surreal musical directed by erstwhile music video maestro Julien Temple (EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY) One of the best post-modern musical films. This musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London was way... (See full description) |
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 | | | As richly realized as any pure fantasy film, and often cited as the most expensive European film when it was made. (The old Soviet WAR AND PEACE is the biggest movie ever made but was a state effort in an economy with no hard currency, and ... (See full description) |
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 | | | Contains both the un-rated director's cut and the R-rated theatrical release version. This is Clark's most complete film and his usual obsessions with teenage sexuality and brutal violence seem more humane in the context of a real story. Th... (See full description) |
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 | | | Giant collection of rare vintage atomic shockers that cover the whole spectrum of reactions to the nuclear destruction of mankind from wildly different perspectives, and a bunch of bonus atomic scare shorts (including RAT, Survival Under At... (See full description) |
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 | | | Wild and stylish crime thriller/romance film from Michael Radford (1984, Il Postino) based on Andrew Davies' novel and starring uninhibited generation Z femme fatale Asia Argento as a young criminal who tries to break free of her small-time... (See full description) |
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 | | | Brian De Palma's over-the-top homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's BLOW-UP (1966), Francis Coppola's THE CONVERSATION and a bunch of other paranoid films like THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and THE PARALLAX VIEW. De Palma had a little ensemble comp... (See full description) |
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 | | | Two pretty bad movies made marketable by the presence of Brooke Shields and Milla Jovovich, respectively, running around wearing little but palm fronds. The basic BLUE LAGOON (1980) concept is that a boy and girl are shipwrecked on an uncha... (See full description) |
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 | | | This is a wonderful movie. Of all the 100s of B&W "psychotronic" horror and science-fiction movies from the 1950s and 1960s there are a handful that are either so good (like THE LAST MAN ON EARTH or CARNIVAL OF SOULS) or so integrally and p... (See full description) |
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 | | | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension would have been more popular today, but the hip post-modern types that were only audience who could "get" the film were too serious and dark in 1984 to enjoy straight-arrow camp her... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Val Guest, Ken Hughes, John Huston, Joseph McGrath and Robert Parrish. An excessive inspired mess (like so many of my favorite movies). James Bond was a 1960s cultural fad on par with The Beatles so a big budget parody was a nat... (See full description) |
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 | | | Likeable mix of MAD MAX and IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT. It's your basic post-apocalyptic road movie action-romance. The basic romantic comedy road-movie plot: An engaged man or woman it thrown in with an exotic member of the opposite sex who i... (See full description) |
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 | | | There are precious few good zero-budget regional genre movies but the good ones can be great… things like NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, CARNIVAL OF SOULS and early John Waters. There can be a powerful energy in hitting the streets with a camer... (See full description) |
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 | | | Directed by Alex Proyas. Before THE MATRIX was… well, everything THE MATRIX was lifted from. Science fiction noir DARK CITY is semi-forgotten for some reason, but it's wonderfully moody and unsettling and ultra-stylized (in a Kafkaesque Fr... (See full description) |
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 | | | One of the few disaster movies that recognizes a solemn aspect of mass destruction. Because of spoilers later in this review I'll get cast and plot out of the way. Tia Leone plays a TV reporter who stumbles on to the biggest (and perhaps ... (See full description) |
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 | | | This movie is mean as a snake! Waters' most incisive social and political critique and full of scenes so funny you'll swallow your tongue. Made without Divine (who was on tour), DESPERATE LIVING reveals a malevolent intellectual edge that’s... (See full description) |
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 | | | As the general said in the movie PATTON, "God help me, I love it so." I don't plan to carry a lot of Japanese monster movies, but the good ones are pretty wonderful. This apogee of Toho monster flicks was made in the ultra-groovy year 1968,... (See full description) |
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 | | | Take the brilliant director of The Abominable Dr. Phibes and a freakshow cast of has-beens and also-rans (William Shatner, Ernest Borgnine, Ida Lupino, Tom Skerritt, John Travolta, Eddie Albert) and what do you get? A very weird movie! Real... (See full description) |
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 | | | This is my kind of movie; sexy, brilliant and so weird you can't figure how it got made. David O. Selznick may have peaked too soon, never gave up on trying to top his triumph with Gone With The Wind. His best effort was this 1946 sprawling... (See full description) |
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