Blogs about Movies

Tom Swift was a brilliant young inventor featured in a series of juvenile science fiction and adventure novels. Swift utilized his fantastic inventions to escape the hazards that he confronted in his travels. The book …

1. Close Your Eyesby Victor Erice"The unluckiest filmmaker in the world," was how Ben Sachs described Victor Erice. The funding cut or witheld entirely for projects realized and unrealized, years without financing, dear friends dying …

“I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.” — Saul Bass The Art of the Title – That’s Saul, Folks!Psycho. Vertigo. North by Northwest. Goodfellas. Casino. You’ve seen his work, but do you …

We speak about colonialism, about the extermination of native peoples, about the enslavement of black people as if all of this was history, as if Europe had learned its lesson, as if it now strived …

This popular annual event returns to KCL on 17th May 2024. This one day event features a range of papers of original research in all areas of film culture in Britain and areas affected by …

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The Stop Making Sense tribute album from A24, Everyone’s Getting Involved hit today. Not all of the covers work for me, but those that do – Paramore’s “Burning Down the House”, The Linda Linda’s “Found …

Elisa Giudici reporting from Cannes Meryl Streep, photographed by Elisa Giudici I was fortunate enough to secure a ticket to the much-coveted rendezvous with screen goddess Meryl Streep. She was in town to receive the …

Tense, emotional climate science-fiction that doesn’t quite come together by Kevin Fox, Jr. This piece was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the film being covered …

Starts as a decent movie with great music, then a bereft revenge dad comes into the defunct police station pursued by a gang of killers, their initial attack kills the lesser actors, and the second …

(A flyer for a series of Corman screenings which I picked up in Tokyo circa 2011.) Yes, I know that he had a great run, that he lived a long and rewarding life, and that …

The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm, beyond the reach of intellect, in some material object . . . which we do not suspect.1 – Marcel Proust,[...] The post Elegy of Ephemera: Exploring Decay …

Elliot's new feature film will world premiere at Annecy next month.

In 2020, when the pandemic had the world in lockdown, I formed a group on Facebook called the Red Screen Society. The purpose was to bring like-minded film writers together to create a joint publication …

Burkinabé filmmaker Apolline Traoré’s Sira is a tale of a woman’s revenge. Sira (Nafisatou Cisse), the titular character, is the joyful and beloved daughter of the chief of a Muslim village, and she is about …

(my translations)XLVI.L'aube spirituelle[46. Spiritual Dawn]When in the realm of the debauched, the white and rosy dawnAccompanied by the gnawing IdealThrough the operation of a vengeful mysteryWithin the drowsy brute, an angel awakens.The inaccessible azure of …

(1962) Directed by Karel Zeman; Written by: Karel Zeman, Jirí Brdecka and Josef Kainar; Adapted from works by Gottfried August Bürger, Rudolph Erich Raspe and Gustave Doré; Starring: Milos Kopecký, Rudolf Jelínek, Jana Brejchová, Karel …

★★★★☆ With Luca Guadagnino's terrific Challengers, the acclaimed director of Call Me By Your Name brings us the sub-genre we never knew we needed: the erotic tennis thriller. The post Film Review: Challengers appeared first …

Edward Dmytryk - 1964 KL Studio Classics BD Region A There is an inspired moment in The Carpetbaggers where the camera rests on the entry to a bathroom in a mansion. George Peppard is seen …

What We Do In The Shadows, S05 E09Some crazy vampirical plotting is afoot.