A SHOCK TO THE SYSTEM
A black comedy whose effectiveness pivots on an unexpected but quite canny casting choice: Michael Caine, playing a New York businessman using highly unorthodox practices to get ahead
A black comedy whose effectiveness pivots on an unexpected but quite canny casting choice: Michael Caine, playing a New York businessman using highly unorthodox practices to get ahead
The late John Candy was a galvanizing force behind this film, which was released in 1994 (the year of Candy’s demise)
About the late blaxploitaiton auteur Jamaa Fanaka, who combined urban grit and sheer weirdness
In which a high-profile film director and TV producer recounts his “Fortysomething Years in Hollywood”
I wish I could report that COLOR OF NIGHT, the final film directed by filmmaker extraordinaire Richard Rush, was a superior example of the erotic thriller format, but I’m afraid that’s not the cas
Another example of the “__ from Hell” cycle that proliferated in early nineties Hollywood
One of the most unnerving, and least compromising, horror films to emerge from the nineties
The long-in-coming memoir of filmmaker Stuart Gordon (1947-2020), a book he spent a great deal of his final years writing
You won’t find much of Washington Irving’s 1820 tale “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” in this 1999 film, but you will find plenty of Tim Burton
Two books and four docs about the one and only Terry Gilliam