Film Reviews

Editor’s Note: This vintage film review by Mark Finch originally appeared in the May 3, 1990 issue of the Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco’s LGBT weekly newspaper). One of the leading figures in the LGBT independent film world in the ...

Editor’s Note: This vintage film review by Mark Finch originally appeared in the May 3, 1990 issue of the Bay Area Reporter (San Francisco’s LGBT weekly newspaper). One of the leading figures in the LGBT independent film world in the 1980s ...

Late 1960’s New York City. A place containing all the urban promise of opportunity, fresh connections, hidden secrets, Midwestern-rooted demons and uprooted repression just itching to burst out right under your black kitten heels as you walk nervously across its ...

A wild man storms into a fancy schmancy restaurant to accost his ex and her new doctor boyfriend. His skin sags with exhaustion and its accompanied with a slick grease of sweat often associated with food poisoning. He’s crazed, angry, ...

Molly (2018), the new video release from Artsploitation Films, just might be the highly choreographed, heavily computer-generated slice of Dutch, post-apocalyptic, girl-power cinema you didn’t know you wanted until now. Not to be confused with Mandy (2018), Thelma (2017), Victoria ...

After Fantastic Fest’s screening of The Boat (2018), there was a Q&A with the film’s writer, producer and lone actor, Joe Azzopardi. Joe’s dad, Winston Azzopardi, co-wrote, produced and directs the film and the two apparently didn’t always see eye to ...

With so many options to rent/buy/stream movies, it’s amazing how many titles still linger in Never-never Land. And, with so much content, it’s even more remarkable that so many film fans remain curious about those strange little shot-on-video regional oddities ...

At the beginning of Dario Argento’s 1978 horror opus Suspiria, a young American woman named Suzy Bannion (Jessica Harper) finds herself a foreigner in a foreign land. Overwhelmed by the long trip and the violent storm around her, she finds ...

At the beginning of the newest Halloween entry, two investigative journalists are sitting inside Laurie Strode’s (Jamie Lee Curtis) compound, hoping to get a few words from her about the ordeal she suffered forty years prior. They ask her if ...

The first time I started Slovak director Stefan Uher’s The Miraculous Virgin (Panna Zázracnica, 1966), it didn’t end. I started the film over before it was finished, but it was the right call because the second time I decided to ...