Now, granted, it can be easily argued that there is no standard for aesthetic assessment in the wake of Jacques Derrida’s presentation of his theory of Deconstruction at Johns Hopkins back in 1966, making it all-too-easy to dismiss anyone’s opinion as, in Henry...
With a title like “Motor Home Massacre” how can actually take a film of that title seriously. I for one liked the box cover art that Lion Gates had produced in order to sell this film on DVD. It really looked like a grind house picture. However, it’s...
MOTHER OF TEARS is a long-awaited movie in many respects. It represents the conclusion of an unofficial trilogy its director began 30 years ago at the peak of his powers. Long term Dario Argento fans will get a kick out of this film’s assorted references to the...
The first time I saw Rebecca DeMornay in a film it was The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. I remember that film well, because I saw it in theaters with my mother and sister. It quickly became one of those films we would watch on VHS a least one time a month. It was a film...
With Motel Hell, British director Kevin Connor took the combined screenwriting efforts of Robert Jaffe, Steven-Charles Jaffe, and Tim Tuchrello and created an incendiary analysis of American society. He wraps the film in a black humor foil as he parodies the...
Former adult movie director Takahisa Zeze creates a highly rewarding hybrid vampire/mafia/action drama with Moon Child, starring Gackt Camui, famed multi-instrumental musician (who cowrote the script alongside the director and Isuchi Kisyu) and Hideto Takarai, lead...
