Imagine an elderly man, sitting in a parlor before a fire, rocking in a chair, and telling you stray stories about his adventures as the comrade to a famous detective. The detective is now retired in obscurity–a beekeeper, we are told–but the truth of his many mysteries have yet to be told. So now...
Two successful detectives battle over police ethics. Touch of Evil is a 1958 film noir directed and starring Orson Welles. It also stars Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh. Set in a Mexican border town, it follows the rivalry between the American detective, Captain Quinlan (Welles), and a Mexican detective, Mike Vargas (Heston). After...
There is a sameness in the way horror movies begin. A group of friends load up their car and head into the country for a binge of sex and booze. Or a family moves into a new town, a new house, to help recover from some tragedy, usually the lost of a child. Or...
Though an atheist, I love the story of Jesus. One man sacrificing himself for the salvation of all–there’s poetry in that. As a writer, I want to write that story, and many writers, especially in Western Literature, revisited this story in there own works. Some very directly, like Nikos Kazantzakis in The Last Temptation...
I have written about my love of horror movies but of my frustrations to find movies that really scare me. What scares us have been filmed so many times in so many ways that it is almost impossible for moviemakers to be scary. Almost impossible, but not entirely. Starry Eyes, financed in part from...
Yes, I saw Age of Tomorrow. I’m not proud of it, but I saw it. I don’t want to admit to you that I saw it, but since I saw this movie as part of my Netflix Now series, I must confess it. In truth, if I hadn’t planned on reviewing this movie, I...
