Activist & Political · Crime · Horror
Training Day (for the Pacification of Iraq): Baghdad in the Ghetto
“You know what I learned today? I’m not like you.”
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Asian · Crime · SF & Fantasy
Camp Carnage: Takashi Miiker’s Full Metal Yakuza
And Frankenstein begat Robocop, which begat Ken
Bonnie and Clyde: Together Again
Warren Beatty’s seminal sixties shoot-’em-up revisited
Capturing the Beauty of the Beast: Aileen Wuornos, Charlize Theron, and Monster
The “monster” Wuornos and why she won’t go away
Steven Spielberg: A Jew in America: Deconstructing Catch Me If You Can
“If only I knew then what I know now.”
Crime · Reviews · Thrillers & Action
Average Nobodies: The Dark Knights of Goodfellas
Scorsese’s wiseguy gangsters as modern-day knights errant In medieval times there were no countries and few strong kings. Monks hid in fortress monasteries while marauding knights brutalized the peasants. Most[…]
Here’s Lookin’ at You, Kid! Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho
Hitch’s – and by now the whole damn culture’s – seminal Oedipal nightmare revisited Read the companion photo essay “Alfred Hitchcock: A Hank of Hair and a Piece of Bone”[…]
Crime · Noir · Reviews · Uncategorized
Carol Reed’s The Third Man on Criterion
Good golly, Mr. Holly! In one of the many extras in Criterion’s sumptuous DVD presentation of Carol Reed’s The Third Man, Peter Bogdanovich calls the film “the greatest non-auteur film[…]
Crime · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Hell in the Heartland: Boys Don’t Cry
These boys do, and so do the girls The credits for Boys Don’t Cry list “Killer Films” as one of the production companies, and that’s as apt a description of[…]
Patrick Leung’s Beyond Hypothermia (1996)
“Her mechanistic thinking precludes her from pursuing the noodle vendor in the usual ways; she can only see him after she has killed, and her sudden appearances and disappearances in[…]
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