TEOREMA
A very strange Marxist parable from Italy’s Pier Paolo Pasolini, starring the late Terence Stamp
PERFORMANCE
Perhaps the ultimate example of a “60’s film” (although it was released in 1970)
WARNING SIGN
A bio-thriller that could, and should, have been lots better
NO TEARS IN HELL
A film often feels like a callback to the torture porn era, despite a prestigious veneer that places it on an elevated, but still extremely horrific, plane.
R. I. P. Howard Stern
No, Howard Stern is not dead, but he might as well be
WAR OF THE WORLDS (2025)
This, the latest cinematic iteration of H.G. Wells’ WAR OF THE WORLDS (1898), has already attained legendary status—and not because it’s good
WHORE vs. SHOWGIRLS
Here’s a pairing that hasn’t been made too often, but it’s a valid one: WHORE, a low budgeter from 1991, and SHOWGIRLS, an expensive tentpole release from 1995
AMANITA PESTILENS
This eco-horror tinged psychodrama had the distinction of being the first Canadian live-action feature to be filmed in color
DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1920)
A silent classic that Ican lay claim to being the definitive adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novella
THE LAST SEDUCTION
An interesting take on the femme fatale trope, with a true performance for the ages by Linda Fiorentino