Fright Night (1985)

I’ve always loved Fright Night (1985) ever since seeing the iconic poster on video shelves gave me the heebie jeebies as a kid. I have a distinct memory of seeing a scene of it on TV when I was young and generally petrified of any horror movie – when Charlie Brewster (William Ragsdale) attempts to […]

Le Bonheur (1965)

I didn’t know much about Agnes Varda’s Le Bonheur (1965; title translates as “Happiness”) before I started watching it except for the title credit image of the hetreosexual nuclear family blurred in the distance while a sunflower is in the foreground and noted comparisons to The Stepford Wives. It’s all about Francois (Jean-Claude Drouot) who […]

Get Crazy (1983)

I’ve always wanted to see Get Crazy (1983) after hearing that Malcolm McDowell plays a Mick Jagger parody named Reggie Wanker. Someone put it all up onto YouTube and it’s a live action rock n roll cartoon (from Allan Arkush, director of Rock n Roll High School) that makes fun of hippies, rock, punk, new […]