John Baggs Jr. says he’s a good judge of character. Played by James Caan, the sailor tells this to Maggie (Marsha Mason), a casual prostitute with whom he falls rather swiftly in love. As Cinderella […]
Contributor A. C. Miller For his directorial debut, Paul Mazursky, comes out swinging. Literally. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice isn’t a farce depicting Eisenhower era (1953-1961) couples plodding through rough relationships with affairs; […]
A few scenic shots under the credits transition the opening of The Other Side of Midnight to a Greek prison, where two of the film’s central characters meet for what seems to be both an […]
Blu-ray Round-Up for June FOREVER AMBER (Twilight Time) ★★★ Twilight Time is notorious for its generally unclassifiable catalogue of classic films. While other boutique Blu-ray labels like Kino Lorber or Vinegar Syndrome are more or […]
Most of those involved in the making of The Psychopath could scarcely be considered a household name. Their aggregate horror credentials, on the other hand, while likewise unfamiliar (for the most part), are also undeniably […]
There’s precisely one sequence in No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948), St John Legh Clowes’ grisly gangster film adaptation of James Hadley Chase’s novel, where the stars align and everything comes perfectly together. It happens […]
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