The Evil That Men Do (1984)

Friday night, kicking back on the couch, and I was in the mood for some Eighties Charles Bronson. Even if the movies are beneath Bronson’s resolute, granite-like presence, they are still compelling to me even if they go through the Death Wish motions. The Evil That Men Do (1984) again reunites Bronson with director J. […]

California Split (1974)

I love rewatching California Split (1974). Even though it is ultimately a sad movie about gambling and addiction, it is a hang out movie with Elliott Gould and George Segal in peak 1970s charismatic handsomeness. Director Robert Altman creates such a sense of place and vibe with the widescreen lensing (cinematography by Paul Lohmann) and […]

The Rapture (1991)

Being a teenage fan of The X Files, I was aware of The Rapture (1991) as a movie David Duchovny was in before becoming Fox Mulder. Yet the central performance is by Mimi Rogers and she is great in delivering a character who shifts gradually throughout this movie’s ongoing thematic conversation with God and religion. […]

Sometimes A Great Notion (1971)

My mother had a couple of books about Paul Newman that I would leaf through growing up, so a lot of his movies would intrigue me and I’d remember the titles of. Sometimes A Great Notion (1971) was one I was keen to track down since Newman directed it himself and it was based on […]

35 Shots Of Rum (2008)

Of director Claire Denis’ film, 35 Shots Of Rum (2008; 35 Rhums), I’d mainly heard about the use of The Commodores song ‘Nightshift’, a melancholy early-1980s jam (about Marvin Gaye’s passing), in a dance sequence. While not used as electrifying or profoundly as the use of a certain dance track at the end of Beau […]