There is a little obscure film that was released in 1974 known as Freebie and the Bean. Stanley Kubrick named it his favorite film of 1974. Peter O’Toole was so fond of the film he instantly accepted the offer to star in director Richard Rush’s next film, The Stunt Man. It isn’t difficult to see…
Author: The Postmodern Pelican
Get Out (2017)
One surprising development that I’ve been so happy to see come to fruition in the past few years is the return to independent horror films becoming more prominent. Some of the greatest horror films ever made were independently made, and every mainstream Hollywood horror film made as had some influence drawn from an independent horror…
Power Rangers (2017)
Hollywood has developed quite an annoying habit in the last few years – playing off the fact that we all love nostalgia. There are countless reboots, sequels and comebacks, and very rarely are they very successful, and sometimes they can be outright painful. Obviously some of them aren’t all bad, but the concepts “nostalgia” and…
It’s Such a Beautiful Day (2012)
We’ve all heard the phrase “less is more” – and its something that I constantly praise, because being a huge supporter of independent film, it is difficult to not love the idea of someone constructing something out of nearly nothing, free from the confines of mainstream Hollywood. Yet there is no filmmaker working today that…
Christine (2016)
I am someone who relishes his knowledge of controversial events in twentieth-century history, and one event that many have heard of, but one that remains shrouded in mystery, is the story of Christine Chubbuck. Her story is one of the most intriguing but elusively mysterious stories, and while it isn’t entirely mysterious in the sense…
Valley of Love (2016)
Isabelle Huppert is the greatest actress in the world – I am contractually obligated by the Gods of Good Taste to mention that at every opportunity. There is simply not any way to deny that Isabelle Huppert is beyond brilliant in everything she does, from the beginnings of her career in the early 1970s, where…
The Love Witch (2016)
First things first – I need to give major kudos to David Ehrlich. His taste is always flawless, and we can see that in his gorgeous year-end best-of lists (even if he didn’t include the masterpiece Birdman in his 2014 list, but I forgive him). The reason why I’m mentioning him here is because his…
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
To be perfectly honest, I sometimes want to grab Hollywood executives by the collars of their suits that cost more than the most expensive car I can afford, and scream at them to stop with the dreaded tendency I call the RRS Syndrome – remakes, reboots and sequels. They are rarely very good, and often…
It Happened One Night (1934)
I have to make a confession – despite being quite an aficionado of comedy films, I had never seen It Happened One Night, arguably one of the greatest comedy films ever made. Now that I finally took the plunge and watched it, not only did I think it was wonderful and absolutely adored it, but…
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
2007 was a fascinating year for cinema for one particular reason – it saw the release of three films – No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. These films have an interesting distinction – they are analogous in the way that they…
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