Reviews

Aleksandr Ptushko might be the only legendary director to have three films appear on Mystery Science Theater 3000. But that’s not his fault that he was lumped in with Ed Wood and Coleman Francis when it comes to American viewers. He didn’t make cheap clunky indie films. Ptushko (1900 –

Dutch superstar Sylvia Kristel set the cinema on fire in 1974 when the sizzling Emmanuelle was released. The film had her going on an erotic journey in Thailand that was both seductive and repulsive. The movie was so popular, she made two sequels. They gained a second life when home

The first time I ever saw Drew Friedman’s art was inside Raw Magazine. The legendary post-modern comix had a wide variety of cartoonists, but his panels stuck to me because he was so hyper realistic in his drawings of celebrities. In this case a demented version of The Andy Griffith

When Soviet Cinema gets mentioned, it’s easy to imagine a 3-hour movie about the glory of the proletariat during a wheat harvest. Heroism of the Working Class was the theme of movies that the government board in charge of films would permit. There were great directors who made masterpieces including

During the late ’90s, I found myself myself hanging out at a ballet school. I was in the film department at the art college, but I often ran into the ballerinas as they pranced all around the campus. One thing that I remember is how the ballerinas were injured a