I published a pocket zine called THE CHRISTMAS CINEMA filled with under seen Holiday films in honor of our screening of GAME OVER (Code Pere Noel 3615) last Wednesday at the Royal Cinema. I am currently stunned by the marathon watch it took to complete the project....
BLOOD BEAT must have been made made by people who have never seen a film in their lives. It's directed/written/shot/composed by a Frenchman in the snowy land of Wisconsin, populated by non-actors stiffly delivering lines, and it stars a glowing killer samurai. It...
SILENT NIGHT, BLOODY NIGHT is a nice Christmas surprise. A Gothic tinged holiday horror that's a precursor to all the season's classics (BLACK CHRISTMAS, SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT) and to the slasher trend as well. The plot deals with a young woman (played by...
I have been obsessed with the musical HAMILTON for the last month. Composer/Actor Lin-Manuel Miranda's story of the rise and fall of one the United State's founding fathers is so good that I had delete the album from my computer to force myself to listen to something...
I'm going on the record now. I think AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS is Jackie Chan's best American movie. I'll wait for a moment to let everyone finish gasping. Lets break it down for a moment. What has Jackie Chan actually done in America? The Rush Hour films? They're...
The CHRISTMAS MOVIE MARATHON continues into a wintry wonderland of cinematic bliss. Or does it? I never said everything I was going to watch was good. CHRISTMAS EVIL (1980) The poster art of Santa Claus reaching through a window with a knife in hand prepares...
Life must have been tough for Lau Kar Wing. He was the brother of one of the most acclaimed Shaw Bros director/choreographers in the business, Lau Kar Leung, and his other brother (by adoption), Gordon Lui, was one of the biggest stars of the screen. Kar Wing may be...
I love the holiday season, but December 25th has always been more of an ending than a climax in my mind. So to fill the time until that fateful day, I chase the Christmas dream by watching a Christmas movie every day during the month of December. It can be any genre,...
As a film lover, I'm always chasing the hidden gems. The films that I've never heard anything about that will blow me away. I thought MY DEAR KILLER would do exactly that. I randomly stumbled upon the fact that it had screened on 16mm at Halloween marathon in...
ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS has all the elements of my favorite musicals: It’s super artificial, the musical numbers happen in real time (as opposed to the imagination or on stage) and the story is simple and direct – a young man (Eddie O’ Connel) loses love, and out of spite,...
