The Shopping Mall is Dead, Long live the Chopping Mall
The younger generation of today and the generations still to come will never fully understand the cultural importance the shopping mall served in the ’80s...
Category: Retro Reviews
A Dazzling Realisation of its Animated Source. Jeremy Carr Takes Another Look at the Wachowskis’ Speed Racer
In 1999, when writer-director siblings Lana and Lilly Wachowski released their sophomore feature, The Matrix, it was more than a mere movie. The film was...
Movies That Deserve Another Look: Akira Kurosawa’s ‘The Most Beautiful’
It’s certainly not the most characteristic film from Akira Kurosawa, nor is it by far his best. It is, however, one of the more intriguing...
Sun, Scandal and Jean Seberg. Jeremy Carr Takes Another Look at Otto Preminger’s Lavish ‘Bonjour Tristesse’
It’s difficult to assess Otto Preminger’s 1958 Technicolor-CinemaScope production, Bonjour Tristesse. It may be even more difficult to appreciate it. Yet there it is, lingering...
‘All the Presidents Men’ Revisited: Nixon, Watergate and a Shining Example of Journalistic Integrity
“Why is this film being made?” I thought to myself while watching the latest trailer for Steven Spielberg’s The Post. “It’s not solely because of...
Michelangelo Antonioni’s ‘The Passenger’ is a Ride Worth Taking. Jeremy Carr Gives it Another Look
It doesn’t take long. As soon as The Passenger begins, Jack Nicholson’s errant journalist, David Locke, appears exhausted and out of sorts. Assigned to cover...
The Misery and Merriment of ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’
The worst thing a film critic can do is not give something a fair shake. Just like how you can never judge a book by...
What the Dickens! The Muppets Christmas Carol is 25.
Charles Dickens was a writer who cared deeply about the world and his fellow man. His books were hugely popular, particularly as they were released...
Manhunter Revisited: The 80s Have Never Been So Thrilling
Manhunter is interesting as an early Michael Mann film and the first attempt to bring Thomas Harris’ world of serial killers to the big screen,...
Love and Loss in War-torn Russia. Grigori Chukhrai’s ‘Ballad of a Soldier’ is a Soviet Masterwork.
It begins with the evocative, ethereal depiction of a mother, standing solemnly in a billowing field, looking on, despondent. Like the visually arresting Soviet masterworks...