Barcelona-born Mexican director Amat Escalante made his name internationally when he won Best Director at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival for Heli – a slow, unflinching film that posited cartel violence and police brutality becoming mutually supportive forces. It drew plaudits, but also some accusations of feeding into American preconceptions […]
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The Breaking Point (1950) Dark, Sweaty Classic Noir Lost in the Shadow of Howard Hawks (Blu-Ray Review)
Dreamland (2019) Canadians can be rather quirky people (Review)
Balls Deep With Geoffrey Of Monmouth – Literary Loitering 106
The internet’s hand-basket of cultural anarchy return for more playful poking of the over-stuffed bears of books and the arts. Kicking things off this episode are Stephen King’s claims that America’s President is scarier than anything he wrote, and that he kind of predicted the future in his book The […]
S16E09 – Stegosaurus Mike or Go Home
The World is Yours: Scarface via Drunken Hell Holiday islands (Review)
Farès is a small-time drug dealer in France, with little enthusiasm to continue. He’s been trying to become a legitimate businessman, with the idea of setting up a company exporting freeze pops to North Africa. His chance has finally come, and he’s saved up 80,000 Euros for the opportunity… 80,000 […]
Literary Loitering 70 – Blistering Postman on Postman Action
Doberman Cop (1977) A peculiar Sonny Chiba character in an endlessly odd police thriller (Review)
Once upon a time, it was instantly apparent when a film was based on a comic or graphic novel as those films concerned themselves with the super-powered and the otherworldly, then around the mid-1990s there was a paradigm shift and the nature of these titles became indistinguishable from the more […]
Literary Loitering 68 – Dude, Wherefore Art Mine Chariot?
We’re a man down and suffering from the heat this week, but still we soldier on against history students, Shakesperian Ghostbusters, Pissing Pugs and “the ultimate therapeutic experience” (according to the guy who took the photos). Our featured book is Warlock Holmes: A Study in Brimstone by G. S. Denning. […]
The Clan (2015) Carries on the Baton for Argentine Crime Cinema (Review)
Following his stint in the Spanish-language anthology film, 7 Days in Havana which was undertaken by several filmmakers and actors from the golden boy, Benicio del Toro to Emir Kusturica. Pablo Trapero returns to the director’s chair with a kaboom in The Clan, Argentina’s entry for the Best Foreign Language […]