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Monthly Archives: April 2021
IN PRAISE OF BOLDER WOMEN: Raquel Welch in 1972’s Western HANNIE CAULDER
Raquel Welch and Robert Culp make for a brilliant team in the Humpback Movie HANNIE CAULDER.
An Actor’s Nightmare: Al Pacino faces The Humbling
Discussing one of Al Pacino’s obscure but good performances of the twenty-first century.
Sleazy and Clever: Jack’s Back !
The best special effect is a good actor. James Spader isn’t messing around in the underrated American giallo JACK’S BACK.
The Outsider: Why We Love Andrew McCarthy and Dig His New Book
Andrew McCarthy was our surrogate in the Brat Pack, and has written a good book about those heady years.
Manners, Morals, and Romantic Confusion: Whit Stillman’s Kind Satire returns in LOVE & FRIENDSHIP
Whit Stillman directs interesting films and writes rather good novels.
In Praise Of Matthew Modine: Firm, Enduring, Simple and Modest.
I like Matthew Modine, as do all of us.
Movie Crush: A Review of MOMENTUM and an Appreciation of Olga Kurylenko
Olga Kurylenko, My Movie Crush.
PART TWO OF THE “ZABU” CHRONICLES: GOING DEEP ON THE UNDERGROUND CLASSIC
I previously talked to Neil Cohen about making the glorious, nutty CHIEF ZABU in some detail. Here I talk to him andco-conspirator Zack Norman (co-star of ROMANCING THE STONE and CADILLAC MAN) in further depth in celebration of the film’s Streaming release. The loose, zanily charming CHIEF ZABU, a comedy about real estate, ambition, sexContinue reading “PART TWO OF THE “ZABU” CHRONICLES: GOING DEEP ON THE UNDERGROUND CLASSIC”
Does Anyone Remember THE BAG MAN with John Cusack and Robert De Niro? I Do!
David Grovic’s The Bag Man is a delayed entry in the Quentin Tarantino- David Lynch wannabe sweepstakes, when late 1990s filmgoers were bombarded with lousy, self-conscious, pseudohip films filled with violence and pubertal weirdness (see Dark Backward, Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead, Mad Dog Time, Big City Blues, and a lot of others). ManyContinue reading “Does Anyone Remember THE BAG MAN with John Cusack and Robert De Niro? I Do!”