My review of TCM’s new Errol Flynn Adventures DVD set is now up at Films In Review. The set includes Desperate Journey, Edge of Darkness, Northern Pursuit, Uncertain Glory, and Objective, Burma!. Click to read at FIR…
“The Story of a Teen-Age Fire-Bomb! Look out! She’s set to explode!” (The Green Eyed Blonde, 1957) With the making of my new short film, Condemned, I found myself watching and re-watching many Women-In-Prison (WIP) films. Recently catching up with a curious 1957 picture, The Green Eyed Blonde, I was inspired to write about the [...]
My review of a new Women in Prison DVD set is up at Films In Review. The set includes Women in Cell Block 7, Escape from Hell & The Hot Box. All three were rather disappointing. The article offers an overview of the genre and where it went wrong. Read at FIR…
Uploaded scans of a Russ Meyer profile I wrote for Maarvon Magazine in Israel. Originally published in March, 2008. The piece is in Hebrew, images sorted right-to-left…
My review of the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival is now up at The Brooklyn Rail. Also available in print around the Brooklyn area. It features reviews of Black Dynamite, Don McKay, Stay Cool, The Girlfriend Experience, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, Transcendent Man, Soul Power, Blank City and Burning Down the House: [...]
Menahem Golan turns 80 today. To celebrate the birthday of this filmmaking giant, the Tel-Aviv Cinematheque Magazine in Israel put out a special tribute issue. I was happy to contribute a piece about the history of Canon Films, the American production company of Golan’s and his cousin’s, Yoram Globus. Scans can be found below. Click [...]
I recently wrote an extensive article discussing the history of Cannon films and their legacy for the magazine of the Tel-Aviv Cinematheque. It is a special in tribute to Menahem Golan on his 80th birthday. If you are in Israel and happen to pass by the Cinematheque, pick up a copy. I hope to post [...]
My choices for the top 11 DVD’s of 2008 are included in the new year roundup at Films In Review. Check out my thoughts of White Dog, Make Way for Tomorrow, Mandingo, Redacted, The Furies, Death Proof and more… In the BEST OF 2008 CHOICES FROM FIR’S WRITERS.
My review of the new DVD box-set, The Warner Bros. Romance Classics Collection, is up at Films In Review. “American critics have never taken Delmer Daves seriously, and the way things look, they probably never will,” wrote Jean-Pierre Coursodon in 1983. Daves is somewhat forgotten, although as a director, writer and producer his film output [...]
My new article, “When the World Ended: Films in the Atomic Age”, is now up at Films In Review. It is a survey of films and themes in independent cinema during the height of the Cold War: In 1942, Time Magazine announced that death rays “missed the bus for World War II,” and promised, “If [...]
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