A review requested by Mat Daniel, with thanks for donating to the Second Quinquennial Antagony & Ecstasy ACS Fundraiser. I would have thought we were past this, but I’ve recently come to find that no, there’s still a seemingly insurmountable gulf in people’s attitudes towards Orson Welles. On one side, there are people who regard […]
Season 1 Pilot (8 April, 1990) A+ Episode 1 (12 April, 1990) A Episode 2 (19 April, 1990) A+ Episode 3 (26 April, 1990) A- Episode 4 (3 May, 1990) B+ Episode 5 (10 May, 1990) A Episode 6 (17 May, 1990) A- Episode 7 (23 May, 1990) A Season 2 Episode 8 (30 September, […]
A review requested by a contributor who wishes to remain anonymous, with thanks for donating to the Second Quinquennial Antagony & Ecstasy ACS Fundraiser. The first time I sat down to watch Ozu Yasujiro’s 1959 Floating Weeds (this would have been in 2005), I couldn’t get past the second shot (not including the opening credits, […]
I really want to talk about the No Man’s Land scene, except I feel like I can’t. If you haven’t seen Wonder Woman, I would very much like you to experience the scene as fresh as possible; if you have seen Wonder Woman, there’s nothing for me to say. And yet I really want to […]
Every week this summer, we’ll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend’s wide releases. This week: to hear the marketing tell it, you’d think that Wonder Woman was the very first major comic book movie […]
Amityville II: The Possession is coated in sleaze, filled with hokey bargain basement haunting effects, and it telegraphs its lack of inspiration on any level other than cashing in on a fad or two for a quick buck so intently, it feels almost like it must be proud of itself. It therefore should come as […]
A review requested by a contributor who wishes to remain anonymous, with thanks for donating to the Second Quinquennial Antagony & Ecstasy ACS Fundraiser. 23 August, 1951, is one of the key dates in the history of world cinema. That was the day (almost exactly a year after it opened in its native Japan) that […]
A second review requested by Chris W, with thanks for contributing twice to the Second Quinquennial Antagony & Ecstasy ACS Fundraiser. Back when it was brand new (and before I ever saw it), I read somebody, I cannot recall who, describe the plot of the 1995 film Leaving Las Vegas as follows: “A man tries […]
Every week this summer, we’ll be taking an historical tour of the Hollywood blockbuster by examining an older film that is in some way a spiritual precursor to one of the weekend’s wide releases. This week: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales drags Johnny Depp back out to sea, the site of […]
