Salt Of The Earth (1954)

There are many different reasons why a movie is a ‘cult movie’. I haven’t read Danny Peary’s write up of the film Salt Of The Earth (1954) in his book Cult Movies 2. I presume it has to do with the fact that it was pulled from release and difficult to see for a long […]

Innerspace (1987)

Innerspace (1987) has been an all-time favourite ever since childhood, constantly rewatching a VHS copy taped from Channel 9, back when TV stations would warn viewers with narration/text that the movie had been adjusted to a widescreen format. I think as a kid I took Innerspace for granted with its mix of special effects, action […]

Knife + Heart (2018)

I was so keen to see Knife + Heart (2018; Un couteau dans le coeur), a queer take on the giallo genre, when it showed at the French Film Festival a few years back. I missed it at cinemas and was meaning to catch up with it – thank the neon-lit heavens for Mubi keeping […]

Farewell, My Lovely (1975)

I love neo-noir as a genre, so there’s only a few I haven’t seen in the recent Criterion Channel ‘Neo-Noir’ collection. So that’s why I watched Farewell, My Lovely (1975), which is a more traditional take on the film noir style with Robert Mitchum playing Raymond Chandler’s character of private detective Phillip Marlowe. I think […]

Live Wire (1992)

As an action movie fan, sometimes you just want the cliches delivered big and loud. Overcome with an impulse to explore the pre-Bond career of Pierce Brosnan, I set the fuse on Live Wire (1992), which was a movie that felt like it was always shown on late night television or advertised in a DVD […]