The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast
Luis Buñuel’s repute as one of cinema’s mightiest talents rested for a long time on his outrageous early works, made …
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The Lost Continent (1968) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Outlandish, lightning-paced, and genuinely hallucinogenic in its flow of bizarre behaviour, feverish plot development, and gaudy Eastmancolor-infused visuals, The Lost …
The Mission (1986) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Writer Robert Bolt’s career interest in lively martyrs, gone-native doomed romantics, and the malfeasance of Empire found a subject of …
The Crusades (1935) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
When generations of pedants have complained about historical inaccuracy in the movies, Cecil B. DeMille’s The Crusades could have been …
A Serious Man (2009) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
I start watching Coen Brothers movies more with a sense of duty than in anticipation these days, but I’ll readily …
Queen Margot (La reine Margot, 1994) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Patrice Chereau’s elaborate, expensive take on the costume epic, an extension of the grimier, would-be honest period films of the …
The Last Valley (1970) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
In many ways a far more accurate cross-cultural transcription of The Seven Samurai than The Magnificent Seven, James Clavell’s single …
Goya’s Ghosts (2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Not quite as bad as some critics said, and yet also a long way from great, Milos Forman turns in …
Freedom and Fate in George Lucas’s THX 1138 and Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report
An edited version of an academic essay I wrote in 2009, looking at common generic concerns. George Lucas and Steven …
