In a chilling, brilliantly realized sequence Adam pursues Jeb into a canyon where he aims to gun the bad seed down but the tables are turned when he becomes a victim of his own vengeance. Jeb is cleared of murder by a local court but both Thor and Mrs. Callum turn against the orphan ...
It is hard to tell whether Mazzetti was aware of the ableist implications of her rushed and impressionistic sign language. Still, it is perhaps unfair to retroactively demand the kind of conscious and sensitive treatment of disability that we hope for in our own time. In the context ofTogether...
observers witnessed retargeting against British rule. The precedent for the 1936 revolt had been set. Street protests rather than mob violence, confrontation against the British police (and army) replaced the murder of Jews and destruction of ...
Petty crook Ugarte shows up and boasts to Rick of "letters of transit" obtained by murdering two German couriers. The papers allow the bearers to travel freely around German-controlled Europe and to neutral Portugal, and are thus almost priceless to the refugees stranded in Casablanca. Ugarte ...
Later she becomes Director of Lead Generation at an insurance company in a small town in New York state. Under her own steam (at night, of course, this being a noir) she researches prospects for a telemarketing murder business. Hey, it’s not like there isn’t a market. ...
But Claire becomes angry at her companions at the lies spread abroad in the C20th about humanity’s distant ancestors: And I knew it – women always knew it. But you two and the thousands of others who led the world swore that men were natural murderers; you killed five million in Fran...
The roots of the plot’s seemingly longbow is spelled out as Cooper recalls the attempts by “a bunch of quacks” to halt and reverse aging with monkey gland transplants, which supposedly once had quite a heyday amongst aging Hollywood stars. Corman’s imagery of Janice gazing out from her...
The other nicety is the title of the film. One might assume (I did) that the character of Mimi is female and is seduced by a male but in Wertmüller’s film, it is the reverse. This causes traditional gender stereotypes to be turned on their heads with more awareness of assumptions. ...
Based on a story by science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, ‘Minority Report’ contains a perfect premise to bring to the big screen. Set in Washington D.C. in 2054, police are now intelligent enough to utilize psychic technology to arrest and convict murderers before they commit their crim...
the classic liberal and the perfect fascist: Woermann ferocious in his denunciations of evil but lacking the necessary edge to be truly effective, Kaempffer all too willing to do anything to make the Nazi ideal real, and willing to murder anyone who stands in opposition, including, ultimately,...