| | | Christian Bale as the slick, sick Wall Street player who doubles as serial killer, putting away people who annoy him and the women with whom he has loveless sexual encounters. Chloe Sevigny, Willem Dafoe and Reese Witherspoon ... (See full description) | | Actresses |
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| | | Martin Scorsese's big-movie debut, made one year before MEAN STREETS. Roger Corman had one hell of an eye for talent, launching the directorial careers of Martin Scorsese, Jonathan Demme, Ron Howard and some others I'm not recalling. (And, ... (See full description) | | Actresses Barbara Hershey |
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| | | Paying homage to Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut spins a suspenseful story of a woman (Jeanne Moreau) tracking down and killing the five men who accidentally murdered her fiance on their wedding day... (See full description) | | Actresses |
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| | | The first uncensored home video version of this film. Runs a full 104 minutes and is mastered from the original negative, so the picture is gorgeous. Now here's something different… right after 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY made him a star, Kier D... (See full description) | | Actresses |
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| | | Hauntingly sexy B-movie with A-movie quality production values. DREAM LOVER is an average "erotic thriller" made more than merely average by James Spader and Mädchen Amick (SLEEPWALKERS, TWIN PEAKS: FIRE WALK WITH ME). Spader is the go-to a... (See full description) | | Actresses |
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| | | Unusually frank chick flick. On average, women seem to like words more than men—both in a relationship and in bed. So maybe it's just because I'm a guy, but the constant no-holds-barred dialogue had me blushing for some reason. (Did I felt ... (See full description) | | Actresses |
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| | | "Not Since SECRETARY Has A Film So Accurately And Provocatively Captured The Subtleties Of Human Emotion Inside Of An S&M Relationship." --Sex Herald "A Tale Of Obsession, Submission And Tortured Love. Peter, a married psychotherapist, an... (See full description) | | Actresses |
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| | | Three cool things about Vargtimmen (Hour of the Wolf): 1) Ingmar Bergman's only horror movie, 2) It was rated X on initial 1968 release, 3) It inspired the Ingmar Bergman film parody that Count Floyd accidentily booked... (See full description) | | Actresses |
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| | | When I was a kid this was the most "adult" movie they ever showed on television. (No other movie caused me to ask so many uncomfortable questions of my parents.) Sprawling epic (147 minutes) Billy Wilder comedy about Parisian prostitutes... (See full description) | | Actresses |
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| | | If you ever had a hankering to see Robert Duvall paw Uschi Digard, you're in luck. (If you have, that's a mighty specific fetish.) Uschi is just billed as "party girl," but this has to be the biggest movie she was ever associated with. TH... (See full description) | | Actresses Uschi Digard |
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| | | Director Gordon Eriksen's Love Machine: "As Kurt Vonnegut once put it, "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be very careful with what we pretend to be." A light variation on this theme is presented in the mock-documentary The Love Mach... (See full description) | | Actresses |
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| | | Jeanne Moreau turns in an unforgettable performance as a psychotic, sexually repressed young teacher in a small French town who commits arson, starts floods and kills livestock... (See full description) | | Actresses |
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| | | One of Luis Bunuel's most free-wheeling surrealist/absurdist social commentaries. "Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem The Phantom of Liberty. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, ... (See full description) | | Actresses |
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| | | Watching RAGING BULL for the zillionth time, it struck me how montage is over-emphasized. Montage is modernist (like collage) and unique to film, so of course early film criticism emphasised that aspect of the craft. Fair enough. An editor ... (See full description) | | Actresses |
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| | | Giant robots, dinosaurs, a space ark, under-water dog-fights, a floating military base above the clouds, Shangri-La… every single thing 1930s science fantasy ever promised, but couldn't achieve at the time, SKY CAPTAIN delivers. An inexpl... (See full description) | | Actresses Angelina Jolie |
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| | | Dagger sharp and sometimes ribald cynical 1975 comedy about teen beauty pageants that has become a cult favorite over the years partially because the pageant contestants are a serendipitous collection of stars in the making, including Colle... (See full description) | | Actresses |
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| | | "Every man has a breaking point." Ruthless thriller of the rape-revenge variety, in a round-about way. Sam Peckinpah's name was synonymous with film violence, and STRAW DOGS did nothing to diminish that association. The 20 minute climax is ... (See full description) | | Actresses |
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| | | Widescreen edition. Unrated Director's Cut. Good things about TAKING LIVES: Distinctly a cut above the average profiler versus serial killer movie. It's not SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, but it's waaaaay ahead of those Morgan Freeman/Ashley Jud... (See full description) | | Actresses Angelina Jolie |
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