First, he teaches him how to drive: “No, you gotta get it up to 50, 60, even 70 miles per hour!” Then, he’s teaching him how to shoot a gun: “the first rule of gun fightin’ is havin’ a gun.”…
Movie Review – ‘Difret’
One of the great blessings of the cinema of Ousmane Sembène, the de facto father of African cinema, was the insistence that Africa has the power and will to fix its own problems; that they didn’t need the efforts of…
Movie Review – ‘Bone Tomahawk’
[Minor Spoilers Ahead] S. Craig Zahler’s Bone Tomahawk offers a glimpse of the direction American Westerns may have taken if they had bypassed the Revisionist sub-genre and taken all of its cues from Spaghetti Westerns. Equal parts technically brilliant and…
Movie Review – ‘Aferim!’
Along sun-dappled forest roads Turks zoom by in city-bound carriages. In muddy villages Hungarians swap stories, jokes, and curses while Russians gossip of the latest French fashions. In a bustling tavern a lone confused Englishman, complete with manicured mustache and…
Movie Review: ‘Momentum’
[Minor Spoilers Ahead] Ain’t no quarter for an honest thief these days. Alex Farraday (Olga Kurylenko) learned this the hard way after refusing to kill witnesses who saw her face during a diamond heist. One way or another a group…
Movie Review: ‘Tokyo Tribe’
“If you ain’t ready to die/You can’t survive. Is there any point in praying?/Is there a price to living?” In his immaculate dining room the corpulent, cannibalistic Lord Buppa (Riki Takeuchi) holds court. By his side, his son Nkoi (Yôsuke…
‘Rifftrax Live: Miami Connection’ Review
The problem with Richard Park’s Miami Connection (1987) isn’t that it’s an abysmal mess, it’s that, despite its flaws, the film isn’t actually that bad. Most of the film’s notoriety comes from its haphazard smashing of three different genres: rock…
