Opening Friday Sept. 13th at IFC Center (323 6th Ave.) is Larry Fessenden’s macabre, inspired take on the Frankenstein story which is heartbreaking as it is horrifying. Set in a warehouse/loft in Brooklyn, Henry (David Call) is a former army…
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“Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me,” is an old quote that has always annoyed me. Anyone who has ever survived a withering rebuke from a lover or been mercilessly trolled online to…
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There have been great documentaries about the fashion world. From The First Monday In May, Dior And I, The September Issue, McQueen, Valentino: The Last Emperor to my favorite Unzipped. But I love it, when, in a fiction film,…
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Lately I’ve been on a mission. And I don’t think anything is impossible when you never say die. I’ve been trying to get death row inmates final DVDs to watch. I hear about “victim’s rights” all the time. But what…
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I just finished a fascinating book on one of my favorite character actors- A Hollywood Tragedy- Laird Cregar by Gregory William Mank (McFarland). It’s one of those books that I knew was in the works and I wondered how…
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An impressive batch or demented favorites, classics and cult oddities on Blu-ray this month. From Busby Berkeley-choreographed insanity like Footlight Parade to Billy The Kid Vs. Dracula– what more could one ask for? Footlight Parade (Warner Archive) One…
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They post photos of missing kids on milk cartons. But what do they do about movies that you can never find? Movies that haven’t shown up on video, DVD or streaming (unless you count bootlegged blurry copies with Rumanian…
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Brilliant, brutal but beautiful Australian revenge tale by director Jennifer Kent (The Babadook). Set in 1825 on the island of Tasmania, it’s about the Clare (Aisling Franciosi), an Irish convict who has finished a seven-year sentence for theft but…
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(I was so upset to hear that the great Hong Kong actor Simon Yam was stabbed on stage in China by some paranoid schizophrenic that I decided to resurrect an article I wrote about Category III films- which Simon…
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Movie theaters are doing it all wrong. Yes, theater-going is down thanks to streaming. But in the 1950s when theater chains were panicked about the advent of TV they came up with movie gimmicks like 3D and Cinemascope. They…
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