Afro Samurai: Resurrection is a hyper-stylized anime film from 2008. It’s half hip-hop and half chanbara. Unfortunately, it includes the worst of both worlds. It does include some of the good stuff, but it is drowned in a sea of misogyny, racism, and stupid crap. I could have ignored some…

When Joseph Breen and William Hays, the heads of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, sat down to read scripts and review films, most people assume they were looking for explicit sexual content, but their mandate was much broader. Their guide was worded in vague, open-ended language that…

John Cassavettes’s Incomparable Film “A Woman Under The Influence” A Woman Under The Influence is an extraordinary film. I imagine what comes to mind first for most people when they think of A Woman Under The Influence, or of Cassevettes in general, is the primacy of the acting. …

Stay in the city, never leave the safety of concrete and skyscrapers. The bucolic corn fields and rolling green hills of middle America are full of crazies. Haven’t you seen Tourist Trap, House of 1000 Corpses, Two Thousand Maniacs, Deliverance, Psycho, or The Texas Chainsaw Massacre? If you’re still not…

I’m 9 minutes and 24 seconds into B-Robo Kabutack: Christmas War and already I am overwhelmed. So many insane things have pummeled my eyeballs, I had to stop and rest. The film opens in the secret lair of some mad, effeminate, new-wave-punk-looking scientist who wants to take over the world…

Thrilling Bloody Sword opens with the theme from the Battlestar Galactica television show. Not the cool Battlestar Galactica from 2004, but the ridiculous one from 1978. Stealing a random theme song for the opening credits is the first hint that the filmmakers are just going to do whatever the hell…

Are you tired of movies that constantly harp on racism? Movies that are not in line with good Christian values? Do you stand in defiance of cancel culture? Are you waiting for someone to finally acknowledge that the baby-eating Satanists on the left side of the aisle are trying to…

The first time I saw Hal Hartley’s Amateur, I had chicken pox and a 104°F temperature. I watched it before I went to bed, and when I woke up the next morning, I had no memory of it at all. That same day, I watched it again, and although I…

Fritz Lang made M in Germany in 1931, a time often referred to as the Weimar period, a time between the World Wars when an unstable and confused Germany searched for a sense of identity. Germans had to deal with a horrific past, an unstable present, and a hotly contested…