Directed by Ron Underwood Perfection is a tiny, tiny desert town in which live only a handful of people, two of whom are best friends intent on hitting the open road like in a John Mellencamp song. They are Val and Earl (Kevin Bacon, Fred Ward), two handymen fed up with their jobs and eager for … Continue reading Tremors (1990)
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Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
Directed by Ed Wood Jr. Plan 9 From Outer Space, once dubbed the worst movie ever made, combines Cold War era fear mongering with gothic era horror and a forced message about man's capability to self-destruct. All of these ideas, in their own way, offer something of value, but it is poorly held together, bursting at … Continue reading Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
Clown (2014)
Directed by Jon Watts Clown, about a man turning into a child-eating clown, is disturbing and thus incredibly effective. It's one of those troubling horror movies that, though it follows certain conventions, wades into frightening, disgusting territory and provokes incredibly upsetting feelings within the viewer. On one hand such feelings may make it easy to write … Continue reading Clown (2014)
The Final Girls (2015)
Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson Like Jumangi, this is a movie that sucks its ensemble cast into a limited, fictional world dominated by a handful of tropes from which they have to play the game, and thus comment on it, to escape. In The Final Girls, a group of teenagers find themselves trapped inside the summer camp from a cult … Continue reading The Final Girls (2015)
BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Directed by Spike Lee Okay, so I last wrote about Operation Finale, which is an ordinary movie about an important true story. Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman is similarly about a true story, but it's much more than an ordinary movie, if only because it very much has something to say. You might've already seen the movie or read … Continue reading BlacKkKlansman (2018)
The Mechanic (1972)
Directed by Michael Winner Arthur Bishop (Charles Bronson) is the sommelier of death in The Mechanic. He's a contract killer who somehow attracts our empathy because of his loneliness and the tireless commitment to his job. He's an assassin, sure, but he goes to such great lengths to make sure his targets die in what look … Continue reading The Mechanic (1972)
Stagecoach (1939)
Directed by John Ford While it wasn't the first western, nor was it close, Stagecoach was the first modern western. Along with the introduction of what would become repeated tropes in the genre, the film was Ford's first foray into Monument Valley, the landscape he would eventually make famous, and it is what made a star … Continue reading Stagecoach (1939)
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