Recommended 20th Century Fox was not a big supporter of 3D in the 1950s- though they did release one 3D movie Inferno in 1953, they believed CinemaScope instead was the future of movies.
Highly Recommended There’s no prelude or onslaught of corporate logos or narration or whatever. Nope, Maniac Cop 2 immediately picks up where the first flick left off, rewinding the clock just enough so you can [click on the thumbnail to enlarge] see..
Highly Recommended An anomaly among early 70s horror films, The Other (1972) was directed by and starring actors with little genre experience. Certain aspects of the film don’t quite work but in many other ways the film is genuinely unsettling and original. Its premise in some aspects anticipates The Omen (1976), also produced by 20th Century-Fox and featuring a score by Jerry Goldsmith, though …
Highly Recommended The Movie: When Dawn Brancheau died at an Orlando, Florida SeaWorld in February 2010, Gabriela Cowperthwaite learned about the incident and the subsequent furor that came about afterwards, and was inspired to make a film surrounding the incident. What she found over the course of filming shocked the documentary filmmaker and former SeaWorld patron, and her attempts to document …
Highly Recommended The Movie: Directed by Ren Clair who co-wrote the screenplay with Armand Salacrou, 1950’s Beauty Of The Devil (which was released in other territories, including the United States, as The Beauty And The Devil so as to not promote whatever attractive qualities the Lord Of Hell might have!) is essentially a retelling of Faust .
Highly Recommended Death Hunt (1981) was the last “serious” film of star Charles Bronson. The reliable supporting actor-turned-Euro-star found mainstream success in the U.S. with Death Wish (1974), then for the next several years mostly appeared in genre action-thrillers similar to those of box office rival Clint Eastwood
Rent It Perhaps spurred on by the success of the hit Discovery Channel program “Deadliest Catch” (which makes an “appearance” here), Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel climbed on board a New England fishing boat to film Leviathan , a nearly wordless 90-minute documentary. Captured on GoPro cameras mounted on sticks, the movie has no traditional narrative, no interviews, no obvious …
Recommended The Movie: Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni in 1961, La Notte follows a wealthy married couple, wife Lidia (Jeanne Moreau) and her husband, an author named Giovanni (Marcello Mastroianni), as they travel around their home city of Milan.
Highly Recommended Katsuhiro Otomo’s Akira (1988) was more or less my first exposure to Japanese animation. A friend of mine, who had spent several years of his childhood in Japan, owned both domestic VHS versions of the film in the early 1990s: one was subtitled, the other was dubbed in English. Not surprisingly, the film’s mature subject matter, intense atmosphere and jaw-dropping visuals …
Rent It The Movie: Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson have done various things since they struck comedic and cinematic gold when they co-starred in the 2005 smash hit Wedding Crashers .