Category: Satire
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Of Unknown Origin (1983)
Peter Weller is such an interesting actor and it’s shame his most iconic role, Robocop, basically had most of his face and body covered up. Watching him act, particularly in the early 1980s, there’s such a loose, wired energy to his physicality, complimented by his sonorous voice. The film, Of Unknown Origin (1983), is marketed… Read.
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Amarcord (1973)
I really became swept up in Amarcord’s (1973) approach to depicting a place, a time, a memory. Directed by Federico Fellini, and while not strictly autobiographical, the film is based on his memories growing up, set in the village of Borgo San Giulano during the 1930s and Benito Mussolini’s Fascism. Rather than having one character… Read.
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A Return To Salem’s Lot (1987)
This was a wacky one. Part of the wave of Stephen King adaptations that were only tangentially related to their source material and clogged up the video shelves in the late 80s and early 90s, A Return To Salem’s Lot (1987) is a sequel to Stephen King’s novel and the TV miniseries, which is directed… Read.
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Defending Your Life (1991)
This might be a generalisation, but it felt like the late-1980s/early-1990s were all about high concept comedies, usually involving time travel, reincarnation, body swapping, and the afterlife. I remember the video cover for the Albert Brooks film, Defending Your Life (1991), but watching it had eluded me until the Albert Brooks collection on the Criterion… Read.
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The Cars That Ate Paris (1974)
All I really knew about Peter Weir’s first film The Cars That Ate Paris (1974) was its memorable title and the iconic image of the VW bug covered in spikes, which was used a lot in the advertising that sold it as a genre horror film (and is even referenced in Mad Max: Fury Road).… Read.
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