There exists a thin and ambiguous threshold within the narrative realms of any communicative conduit where emotional experience can...

The emotional turmoil that FIVE EASY PIECES inflicted is precisely what endeared it to me — a film that challenges our morals and tests...

Sex is far too often presented as reductive surface sensationalism, a buoying excuse to indulge in objectifying hedonism — where dignity...

Sex, like anything else in film, can be a welcomed addition or gratuitous fodder — and in saying this I’d like to clearly mark myself an...

I’m a firm believer that cinema is best experienced in grandiose fashion. It’s a privilege I’ve relentlessly reaped since moving to Los...

WILD AT HEART is the American Dream ablaze in hot pink, an enchanting compendium of cinematic parables where EASY RIDER meets THE WIZARD...

I want to preface this by confessing I have yet to watch the final theatrical version of SWING SHIFT, so everything stated here-in will...

It’s a grand shame that THE QUICK AND THE DEAD continues to be unjustly appraised on account of media pedantry, flattened to an...

The genius of CACTUS FLOWER begins with its titular duality, at once defining both the film’s prevailing allegory as well as epitomizing...

From the start of his career, Bob Aldrich was always hellbent on dissecting Hollywood. His films cut through its gilded exterior with...

There is no sound way to fully satiate grief. It is an unending and demanding abscess, gaping, dark and unearthly in its formless shadow...

MGM’s star-studded, loosely biographical musical of garish proportions CALAMITY JANE is David Butler’s Trojan Horse: a star-studded...

If sex is power, is not power, by association, a sin? BENEDETTA is Verhoeven’s greatest paradox — unabashedly candid yet cloaked in an...

There’s a beautiful poeticism innate to PRIVATE BENJAMIN, found within the deeply personal and profound performance put forth by its star...

Sharon Stone as Gloria and Jean-Luke Figueroa in Lumet’s GLORIA (1999) So often we carelessly conflate the terms ‘remake’ and ‘rendition’...

Introductory preface: This piece is part of Dr. Annette Bochenek’s Biopic Blogathon, something in which I’m delighted to partake. You can...

Introductory preface: This piece is part of Dr. Annette Bochenek’s Biopic Blogathon, something in which I’m delighted to partake. You can...

Introduction The mermaid (Ann Blyth) excitedly showcases her underwater abode in an impressive swimming sequence There’s no simple nor...

Introduction The mermaid (Ann Blyth) excitedly showcases her underwater abode in an impressive swimming sequence There’s no simple nor...

So often the magnitude of complexity renders us incapable of finding it in the most accessible spaces, making its elusive quality all the...