Cecil B. Demented (2000)

I started watching John Waters’ Cecil B. Demented (2000) on NYE 2017, and took a break, only getting time to finish it on Jan 2, so this was technically the first good movie I watched in 2018. Trashed by critics on release, recommended to me by my friend Clare Nina, this film is a gleeful, […]

A New Leaf (1971)

I’ve been slowly catching up on Elaine May’s films as a director. A New Leaf (1971) was apparently a longer, darker film in her original cut before Robert Evans head of Paramount stepped in to make it more audience friendly – still, despite that, I think it is such a funny, wonderful film. A bit […]

The Hot Rock (1972)

With Robert Redford announcing his retirement after The Old Man And The Gun, hopefully another earlier film where he played a bank robber will get new attention. I remember seeing the ending to The Hot Rock (1972) and loved Redford’s walk to the jazzy score by Quincy Jones. Finally sat down and watched the whole […]

Just One Of The Guys (1985)

Another movie poster I remember seeing in video stores, Just One Of The Guys (1985) is an eighties teen movie with a high concept twist: Terri (Joyce Hyser) wants to be a journalist and is passed over for a summer internship at a newspaper by her teacher’s sexism, so she decides to go undercover as […]

F/X2 (1991)

I used to watch F/X2 (1991) so much when I was a teenager, taped off TV on VHS, more than the first one which starred “our” Bryan Brown as a special effects technician caught up in a criminal plot with Brian Dennehy as the cop after him. The sequel is more upbeat and cartoonish with […]