By Drew Morton It is the summer of 1996. I’m twelve years old and I’m standing in our driveway with my brother, my cousins, and a boxy VHS camcorder mounted on a tripod. We’ve just […]
If you remember a time when Robert Zemeckis was known for “balls to the wall” comedies, before Forrest Gump, The Polar Express and all the computer generated creepy-bloaty digital creations he got involved with, then […]
For some reason, which I can’t, to this day, completely understand, I have an obsessive fascination and disgust over one of our darker periods in mid-twentieth century history; the work of the House Un-American Activities […]
There was a time when Sam Peckinpah was considered the greatest working American filmmaker– circa 1969. Misunderstood by the studios and most audiences, it was the critics who came to his defense, and today he […]
Watching any Woody Allen film today brings a whole load of baggage along with it. Deeper meaning, revelatory dialogue, scenes, jokes, plots – everything is up for reinterpretation and dissection. However you feel about the […]
Walter Hill’s The Driver (1978) is the spiritual predecessor to Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive (2011). Both are minimalist neo-noir thrillers about unnamed anti-heroes who are solely defined by their professions as getaway drivers. Both use their stripped down […]
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