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Before he made Tommy (1975), Altered States (1980), Gothic (1986), or The Lair of the White Worm (1988), Ken Russell made The Devils (1971). …

It all begins with a dark admonition from a cackling witch. Breaking the fourth wall, she waves a skull at the camera and says, “There is still time. Don’t watch this film. Go Home!” Then she bursts into the fits of sinister laughter so often employed by her kind. The…

Top of The Heap is hard to digest. It’s ragged and unpredictable and it switches back and forth between fantasy, dreams, and reality. Plots are built on cause and effect, but in Top of The Heap, we get a mass of interconnected scenes. It works when the scenes compliment and…

I did it. I watched Rollergator. I watched the whole thing. What can I say? What can anyone say? It is less a movie and more a means of audio-visual torture. It’s not the worst movie I have ever seen, but it has to be the most annoying. It’s about…

One day your children will turn to you and ask what the 1980s were like, and you won’t know how to answer because you won’t be as old and fat as I am, but do not lose hope, you can sit them down and let them watch Class of 1999…

Neptune Frost and Black Panther have very different approaches to very similar content. …

Jordan Peele made his film Us in 2019. It is a complex film dealing with the concept of “the other.” Donald Trump was president at the time and was busy creating as many fractures in the American populace as he could. The chaos and cruelty that ensued were a means…

The further south you travel in Italy the more Italian Italians get. People from Milan might as well be French, but go south to Naples, or further to Basilicata, where Il demonio was filmed, and you will find where all the stereotypes come from. The hand gestures, the hot tempers…

RRR is a very silly movie. A very silly and very expensive movie. The most expensive India has ever produced. It cost 72 million dollars. The movie is an overblown, action thriller bellowing out an epic battle between good and evil. The good guys being the Indians and the bad…