Unsurprisingly, in the past few years heroin suppliers have been finding new and innovative ways to kill their clients. From late 2013 and into 2014, there were at least 700 deaths connected to fentanyl-cut heroin. […]
François Truffaut was never properly suited to film noir. His enthusiasms were too childish and his outlook too optimistic to ever be properly gloomy or cynical for that most nihilistic of genres. His male characters […]
Thomas Hardy’s 19th century novel of class distinction, gender inequality, romantic love and practical application has been beautifully rendered in the film Far From the Madding Crowd. Recently released to favorable reviews starring Cary Mulligan, […]
You can’t fault Dementia 13 for its ambition: a gothic, slow-burn horror film thick on atmosphere and dread. You can, however, fault director Francis Ford Coppola and producer Roger Corman for everything else: stilted dialogue, […]
In their attempt to wheedle the money out of a sanitary napkin heiress (Stockard Channing in her film debut), Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson jump into the roles of befuddled, sometimes outsmarted, and pathetic men […]
Woody Allen has been making movies for so long, most may not remember when his career was divided into just two distinct periods; the mature work and the early “funny ones.” This was circa 1980, when […]
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