Category: Drama
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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… Read.
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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… Read.
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Cemetery Of Splendour (2015)
What I most want from an art movie is to be taken to somewhere else. Another part of the world, yes, but also taken to another way of seeing. Cemetery Of Splendour (2015; Rak Ti Khon Kaen) is only my second film that I’ve watched from Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul (after Uncle Boonmee Who Can… Read.
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Nightmare Alley (1947)
All I really knew about Nightmare Alley (1947) was that it was a classic film noir, it’s currently being remade by Guillermo Del Toro and it’s another film I’d not seen that was covered in Danny Peary’s Cult Movies 2. That, and it had something to do with carny life. This is definitely a case… Read.
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Redbelt (2008)
I love Redbelt (2008) in spite of myself. Writer-director David Mamet has a way with words, but despite all his pretensions, he’s in love with macho bullshit as any other blockbuster action type. The movie is set in the world of Mixed Martial Arts competitions and has an eclectic cast that mixes Mamet regulars like… Read.
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