#HateFilms: Heat
“Wasn’t great” was Michael Owen’s two-word review of this 1995 showdown between the cop (Al Pacino), the thief (Robert De Niro), his wife (Diane Venora) and her lover (Xander Berkeley). […]
Tag Archives: The Dark Knight
Across 110th Street
Three men steal $300,000 from the mob in this blaxploitation classic from 1972. My main complaint with Black Mama, White Mama (co-written by Jonathan Demme, who sadly passed away yesterday) was that […]
Blog: Morgan Freeman – Ageing Scienceman
Russian scholar Vladmir Propp famously came up with seven character types that appear in fiction. However, as Propp came up with his theory based on fairytales in 1946, he missed […]
Mental Illness in Film
How various groups, from women and racial groups, to LGBT people, nationalities and people of differing political views, are represented in films is a topic of much discussion, including on […]
Screen Goblin 