Sisters (1972)
The start of Brian De Palma’s “I’m just going to keep making Psycho” period, Sisters sees journalist Grace Collier (Jennifer Salt) investigating the case of a corpse folded into a […]
Author Archives: Dan Meier
April Fool’s Day
No holiday could pass the 1980s without being memorialised in the form of a slasher flick, be it Christmas Evil, My Bloody Valentine or Bloody New Year. This became untenable in the […]
Bad Girls
Four prostitutes (Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Drew Barrymore and Andie MacDowell) go on the run after killing an assailant in this 1994 Western AKA Thelma and Louisiana. Bad Girls rounds […]
A Tale of Two Sisters
Two sisters (Im Soo-jung and Moon Geun-young) suspect there’s something off about their stepmother (Yum Jung-ah) when they open the fridge door to find a bloody fish next to the peanut […]
Underwater
A deep-sea driller (Kristen Stewart) does some serious offshore boring in her latest box office bellyflop. Hot on the heels of the now long-forgotten Charlie’s Angels reboot, Stewart reaches new […]
Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger
Two years before his death, this 1988 documentary spotlights one of the world’s greatest drummers and bandleaders. Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley’s fly-on-the-wall style avoids the usual retrospective approach by […]
I Saw the Devil
I sometimes wonder what Secret Cinema would be like in South Korea. Do they put you in a box for 15 years then feed you a live octopus and chase […]
The Lighthouse
Two men (Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe) go insane on a tiny island in The Lighthouse, or Brexit: The Movie. Essentially The Shining in a lighthouse (The Brining?), this loose […]
The Innocents
A governess (Deborah Kerr) confronts voices, apparitions, noises and superstitions in 1961’s The Innocents – a much better name for a The Turn of the Screw adaptation than The Turning, […]
Dolemite
After Netflix made a high-quality feature about Rudy Ray Moore, Amazon cheaply snapped up his movies in an act of opportunism worthy of the man himself. The original Dolemite movie […]
