many folks thought that nobody cared about Avatar, that the first movie had no cultural impact, and that the success of the first movie was a fluke that wouldn't be repeated. But this is a situation that James Cameron has found himself in repeatedly, both with the first Avatar as well ...
I’m very curious to watch this again after dabbling in….some kind of adult substance. There are a lot of surreal elements to this film – another woman shows up to woo Marah at one point, but she speaks in a man’s voice. El Topo feeds Marah in the desert by making her stand ...
Later, as the men are drinking their ration, a heat-worn Frank makes it back to the crash site. That night Frank tells Lew they have no chance of being saved. Lew tells about the airplane plan. Heinrich explains his plan to the group. In short, the plan is to pull the right wing ...
Somewhere in Riding the Bullet, buried not too far below the surface, is a poignant story about grief and coming to terms with the death of a parent. The problem is it gets lost in all the other stuff. Based on a King short story of the same name, Mick Garris' adaptation follows ...
It’s also really hard to believe that Driver jogged all the way from the prison to the junkyard in the desert heat, even if it was only a few miles. Maybe his determination saw him through. S is for… Sidekicks R.G. is the one who left the car, weapon, and first victim’s info...
Lost in the Desert (Dirkie) (dir. Jamie Uys) There Was a Crooked Man… (dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz) Airport (dir. George Seaton and Henry Hathaway) Alex in Wonderland (dir. Paul Mazursky) The Student Nurses (dir. Stephanie Rothman) Love Story (dir. Arthur Hiller) Bloody Mama (dir....
Paul Manderley, eccentric historian, and his wife, descendant of the Borgias, live in an isolated castle-like mansion in the Mojave Desert. When a guest suddenly collapses, Charlie Chan is invited to stay. As the standard mystery-mansion props come into play, and all means of outside communi...
The Beast of Yucca Flats(1961)– Dadaist narration courtesy of the eccentric Coleman Francis makes this tale of a nuclear blast turning Tor Johnson into a ravaging desert “beast” weird indeed Beasts of the Southern Wild(2012)– Six-year old Hushpuppy lives in “the Bathtub” with her dyi...
(Leonardo Sbaraglia), who is the only survivor of an airplane crash, beating the odds of 237 million to 1. (I am not the statistician here, only the reporter.) The movie involves a man named Sam (Max von Sydow), who survived the Holocaust and now operates a remote casino at which ...
In honor of Fight Club's 15th anniversary, we look back at the 25 riveting films that threw us for a loop.