The beloved Naked Gun franchise awakens from its 30-year retirement and straps on the ol’ sidearm with yet another comedic take on police procedurals that brings both nostalgic laughs and modern sensibilities to an old gag ...
I mean, truly there are 3 stars in this plastic-wrapped corpse collection of a whodunnit if only for the vibrant crash-zoom opening which features Edwige Fenech dancing in her golden bra as if at a European Go-Go with a vibrant energy few women can match ...
Who’d have thought that vikings in ridiculous costumes could be this endearing?! Certainly no one I know . . . especially if you just gradually tune in and out of this western-inspired adventure. Throw in some shoot-outs (by way of knives) and a showdown in the sunset and you have director Mario Bava’s nod ...
Cinematographer Jeremy Benning - providing some of the most gracious details in the Canadian farmland surrounding director R.T. Thorne’s (Blindspot, The Porter) film - knows how to lens the apocalypse, grafting each blade of grass with poetry and passion. Even as ...
Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme is a visual and whimsical delight that will undoubtedly charm long-time fans of the filmmaker’s signature style. Though this latest entry into Anderson’s cinematic repertoire brims with his trademarks – a meticulously crafted world ...
“If you would have come in 10 to 15 minutes earlier or later, this just might not of happened." Dark and depraved; that's exactly how independent filmmaker Joe Hollow likes it. Which is why he is back at it with a brand-new cut of the first film he completed, The Family. That was ...
If the opening moments of Kill, Baby, Kill aren’t enough to set you on edge, then I suppose nothing else in Mario Bava’s bloody good movie will either. Move along, kid. There’s literally nothing for YOU to see here if you remain unaffected by its suspense. This film, celebrated immediately upon its release ...
Mario Bava’s thriller, The Girl Who Knew Too Much, is really where the Italian giallo began. Yes, it is borrowing heavily from Hitchcock But there is a breathless agility to its overall mystery that operates a bit more fantastical than Hitch dared as a young woman (Letícia Román), while vacationing ...