Tag: Mickey Rourke
The Palace | 2023 Venice Film Festival Review
It’s Only the End of the World: Polanski Checks Out with Broad Satire
As many are likely to avoid The Palace, the latest film from persona...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #117. Roman Polanski’s The Palace
The Palace
Understandably this next item on our list comes with a lot of heat. An Officer and a Spy (J'Accuse) won a trio of...
Criterion Collection: Rumble Fish | Blu-ray Review
The 1980s began roughly for Francis Ford Coppola, one of the most lionized American auteurs ever, whose streak of the 1970s was an unmitigated...
Ashby | Review
Three Months to Kill: McNamara’s Derivative Hodge-Podge
You’ll neither laugh nor cry, but hover somewhere in an emotionally dysthymic plateau watching Tony McNamara’s sophomore debut,...
Wild Orchid | Blu-ray Review
Well before the mainstream fascination with the soft-core sexual sensibilities of Fifty Shades of Grey, one of the more notable alums of such boundary...
Black November | Review
Sweet, Oily November: Amata’s Agonizingly Clunky Issue Film
Nigerian filmmaker Jeta Amata’s fourth feature Black November sports a slew of notable American faces in this...
Sin City: A Dame to Kill | Review
Love the Sinner: Miller & Rodriguez Bring Back Hyperstylized Noir with Mixed Results
It has been almost a decade since the visually innovative Sin...
