Month: April 2021

Wobbly, Spinning Plates: FOCUS in Focus

Everything wrong with modern cinema explained here succinctly!

Raquel Welch and Robert Culp make for a brilliant team in the Humpback Movie HANNIE CAULDER.

Discussing one of Al Pacino’s obscure but good performances of the twenty-first century.

The best special effect is a good actor. James Spader isn’t messing around in the underrated American giallo JACK’S BACK.

Andrew McCarthy was our surrogate in the Brat Pack, and has written a good book about those heady years.

Whit Stillman directs interesting films and writes rather good novels.

I like Matthew Modine, as do all of us.

Olga Kurylenko, My Movie Crush.

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 … Continue reading PART TWO OF THE “ZABU” CHRONICLES: GOING DEEP ON THE UNDERGROUND CLASSIC

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 … Continue reading Does Anyone Remember THE BAG MAN with John Cusack and Robert De Niro? I Do!