While the cat is away, the mice might play, but just what do they get up to? This is the core question driving the plot of Preston Sturges’ tenth feature length film, Unfaithfully Yours (1948). Famed conductor Sir Alfred De Carter (Rex Harrison) returns from a transoceanic flight only to learn that the love of […]
Read more "I Find Your Lack of Fidelity Disturbing: Unfaithfully Yours"Will Rabjohns is a professional photographer with a unique, and some might argue morbid, specialty. He takes pictures of wildlife on the verge of destruction, documenting endangered species before they finally plummet into outright extinction. He’s got books to his name, friends and colleagues and lovers aplenty, a casual flirtation with drugs such as weed […]
Read more "Bearing Witness: Clive Barker’s Sacrament"Father Ezekiel O’Sullivan (Tim Sullivan) had been having terrible dreams before he decided to head an archaeological trip to Mexico. That trip seemed preordained, something he was meant to go on. Perhaps it would help rekindle his dwindling faith. He never anticipated the kinds of people he would be leading. Skeptical Frost (Gregory Frost), loudmouthed […]
Read more "Let Them Fight: The Laughing Dead"James Beckett (Jeremy Ninaber) and Marshall (Ethan Mitchell) are brothers at arms, mercenaries who go where the money tells them to go, do the jobs the money directs them to do, and GTFO when the time is right. What they do is dangerous work, sure, but that’s a bonus for adrenaline junkies like these. Although […]
Read more "Get In, Get Out: Death Valley"Wartime means saying goodbye to a lot of boys and girls in uniform, some of whom won’t be coming back. Well, in small town, Midwest America (circa 1943), that means a big sendoff party with soldiers dancing with smiling people all duded up to wish them well. It also means a lot of hanky-panky and […]
Read more "A Fine, Controlled Chaos: The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek"When the unnamed narrator (let’s call him The Kid, same as others in the story) was eleven years old, his father changed the course of his life. Prior to that, The Kid’s unnamed father was a corrupt cop, a wife and child beater, and all around mean son of a bitch. However, when he learned […]
Read more "Shitstorm Crazy Violent: Tom Piccirilli’s You’d Better Watch Out"Every now and again, it’s good to remind myself that there are some movies in the world that are so far out there that even a relatively worldly cinephile such as myself cannot find anything good to say about them. The Camille Keaton in Italy boxed set includes an interesting film, a fun film, and […]
Read more "Every Witch Way But Loose: Sex of the Witch"Prior to making the splendidly unsettling Madeleine: Anatomy of a Nightmare, Camille Keaton appeared in several other Italian productions across a variety of genres. Her first starring role in Italy was as the titular character from the classic giallo, What Have You Done To Solange? (1972). As well, she appeared in a rather surreal and […]
Read more "Leave Her To Hell: Tragic Ceremony"Madeleine (Camille Keaton) is a woman torn between a waking life and a prophetic dream one. She has nightmares about being chased through woods by strange witchy characters, she dreams of an baby doll in a glass coffin immolated on a burning wreck of a race car. She also envisions a terrible accident, a race […]
Read more "What Strange Power You Have Over Me: Madeleine: Anatomy of a Nightmare"Stanton “Stan” Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) is a man on the run, and what better place to end up in than a carnival? They offer wages for a hard day’s work, and they don’t care who you are or what you’ve done, providing it doesn’t blow back on the carnies themselves. Stan is a man who […]
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