Heaven Knows What (2014)

After rewatching the Safdie Brothers’ excellent film Good Time on Netflix (this is now my go-to Netflix recommendation now that King Of Comedy is no longer on there), I realised I’d not seen any of their earlier movies. Some of their low budget dramas are hard to find, like Daddy Longlegs, but Heaven Knows What […]

Shock Corridor (1963)

Diving deeper into the world of director Samuel Fuller, I finally watched Shock Corridor (1963), which I remember Martin Scorsese playing clips of in his Personal Journey Through American Cinema docu-series (now on Kanopy, which this film is available to stream too). Shot over ten days in one location, this low budget thriller follows journalist […]

1922 (2017)

Zak Hilditch’s adaptation of the Stephen King novella 1922 (2017) has hit Netflix. While there are references to classic Edgar Allan Poe horror elements of rats and apparitions, it’s more about the truer horror of the evil that men do, how one’s own vanities poison everything around them. One of Thomas Jane’s best performances (not […]

Bad Timing (1980)

Continuing to catch up on the films of Nicolas Roeg after his recent passing, I settled in to watch Bad Timing (1980), a film that failed financially on release and became very hard to see due to its explicit content. Infamously an executive at Rank Organization that released it, said it was “a sick film […]

The Trust (2016)

Among the half dozen movies Nicolas Cage releases every year, there’s always a stray diamond in the direct-to-digital-TV rubble. Well, maybe diamond is pushing it but The Trust (2016) is still a good movie. Elijah Wood and Cage play a pair of Las Vegas cops who work in evidence collection. When paperwork leads Cage to […]