You Preached the Sermon: Dark Tourist (2012)
You Preached the Sermon: Dark Tourist (2012) In the late arrival, Dark Tourist, guard Jim Tahna (Michael Cudlitz) seems like a pleasant enough guy. He’s low key and studiously neat, with his own carefully observed routine. When he sits behind his desk he has his chocolates bars, his sandwiches and his thermos arranged just so. OK, so maybe he’s borderline OCD but that would hardly single him out in our 21st century society. And...
A Steve McQueen Double: The Getaway & Papillon
A Steve McQueen Double: The Getaway & Papillon By the mid-seventies Steve McQueen had become, along with Clint Eastwood, the very embodiment of laid-back heroes and antiheroes. He was a major star and in fact so efficient was he in the persona that he created for himself that it was only following his death from cancer at the age of 50 that film fans sat up, re-evaluated him and slowly let it dawn on them that he...
Some Kind of Acid Flashback: Passion (2013)
Some Kind of Acid Flashback: Passion (2013) In those great days of my late teens/early twenties, when I was discovering just how marvellous cinema could be, Brian De Palma would be one of the directors that you just never missed. Yet back then–for me at least–he would never have even approached the heights of greats like Scorsese, Peckinpah or Ken Russell. I would also never miss a Woody Allen or a Hal...
I’d Rather Do Something Unmentionable: Would You Rather (2013)
I’d Rather Do Something Unmentionable: Would You Rather (2013) Even the great Jeffrey Combs—yes, good old Dr. Herbert West himself— can’t re-animate this turkey with life. In fact, the most awful thing about it is that the title isn’t the most awful thing about it! And seriously, isn’t that title just about one of the worst that you’re ever likely to come across? Would You Rather; God, it invites so many replies. ...
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