Video Nasty 37: Tenebrae
Before Misery and In the Mouth of Madness, Dario Argento explored the idea of horror novels causing real violence in 1982’s Tenebrae; the story of an American novelist (Anthony Franciosa) […]
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Porco Rosso
A porcine fighter pilot eludes Italian fascist swine in Studio Ghibli’s Porco Rosso. Hayao Miyazaki’s ode to old Hollywood follows the Bogartian bounty hunter through a series of hog nights […]
Legend (1985)
A young Tom Cruise stars in this largely forgotten fantasy flop ironically titled Legend. Bringing an abrupt halt to Ridley Scott’s early run of classics (The Duellists, Alien and Blade […]
The Mask of Zorro
During the Mexican War of Independence, masked vigilante and sword graffiti pioneer Zorro (Anthony Hopkins) is a symbol of hope for an oppressed people. But when he’s imprisoned for 20 […]
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
David (Haley Joel Osment) is a robot designed to look like a young boy, and is the first of his kind designed to feel real love. He’s assigned to a […]
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 […]
Tokyo Story
An elderly couple (Chishū Ryū and Chieko Higashiyama) make their first trip to Tokyo to visit their children. First the children’s lives are shown from the perspective of the parents, […]
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 […]
The Passion of Joan of Arc
In perhaps the earliest ever courtroom drama Joan, or Jeanne, of Arc (Renée Jeanne Falconetti) is on trial following her failed attempt to lead the French against the invading English, […]
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 […]
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