In the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, it appears that Billy Wilder was interested in 2 things: 1). Making movies about the relationship between men and women 2). Pushing the boundaries of censorship as far as he could And with SOME LIKE IT HOT, THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH and his Academy Award winning film THE APARTMENT, he certainly accomplished both items. For his next film, he had to go to France, for the title character of his 1963 film, IRMA LA DOUCE, is a prostitute. Originall

Say what you will about Greek Director Yorgos Lanthimos and the oddities that are his films, but one thing you can NOT say about his films is that they are mundane. The latest outing by the Director of POOR THINGS, a “two-hander” starring Lanthimos’ stock players Emma Stone (POOR THINGS) and Jesse Plemons (KINDS OF KINDNESS) is a case in point. BUGONIA tells the tale of High Profile, High-Scale Tech CEO Michelle (Stone) who is kidnapped by Teddy (Plemons) because Teddy thinks

I went to see the latest installment in the Predator series of movies, PREDATOR: BADLANDS, expecting to see a gritty, somewhat gorey, perhaps a little, above a “B” movie action/adventure sci-flick flick. Instead I got a variant on the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY style of film. And that isn’t necessarily, a bad thing. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg (the previous 2 installments in the Predator series, PREY and the animated PREDATOR: KILLER OF KILLERS), Predator:Badlands follows “runt

If you are debating whether or not to check out the latest Ethan Coen Written & Directed Dark Comedy/Mystery/Thriller (now streaming on PEACOCK for free, or you can rent it on Amazon, Apple, etc…), I have two words for you… HONEY, DON’T Not only is that the name of the film, that is my warning to you. The 2nd solo Directing effort from 1/2 of the Coen Bros duo (FARGO), Honey Don’t shows that Ethan Coen (last year’s turkey DRIVE AWAY DOLLS) must be the untalented one for this

When I saw that the new big budget remake of the Frankenstein tale, written and Directed by an Oscar winner Director and starring one of Hollywood’s A-List stars was only going to be in Theaters for a week before going straight to streaming, I wondered why. And then I saw the movie. Written and Directed by Guillermo del Toro (THE SHAPE OF WATER), his version of FRANKENSTEIN is lavish, lush, beautifully shot with Cinematography, Art Direction, Costumes and Make-Up that are, fo

Question: What is the first novel that Stephen King completed? If you answered CARRIE, you’d be wrong (it was his first novel published, but not the first novel he completed). This honor would go to THE LONG WALK a book he completed as a 19 year old, but then sat in a drawer in his office until long after he became famous - - and then, famously, he published it under the pseudonym Richard Bachman because he wanted to see if this novel would stand on it’s own (and not because

After strong showings with WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION (1957) and SOME LIKE IT HOT (1959), Writer/Director comes back with what is, perhaps, his best all around picture, the 5x Oscar winning THE APARTMENT. This film tells the story of nebbish office worker C.C. Baxter (Jack Lemmon in an Oscar nominated performance, more on that later) who is talked into lending his apartment to higher-ups in his company so they can carry out extra-marital affairs. When one of the affairs goes

TRON: ARES is an assault of the senses. It is big and bright and bold and the images flood over you in wave after wave after wave of bright visual content while the soundtrack by Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross) bombards you with throbbing rhythms incessantly. If this is your jam, head to the largest screen with the most bad-ass sound system you can find to check this marvel out. If this is NOT your jam, then the headache it will induce in you will NOT be overco

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