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Wild Orchid has a story with barely any substance. It has been frequently summed up as the 50 Shades of Grey of the 1980’s. And you can tell that right from scene #1. This story is not interesting in the slightest. Although the setting is stylized to a ridiculous degree, with the softcore porn lighting and camerawork. The film is as stimulating as a paperclip.
Remembering Wild Orchid from the good old 90’s Read More
Watching Daydream Nation is an uncomfortable experience, and not because it involves student-teacher sex or the looming threat of a small-town serial killer, or even because it’s kind of dull. No, the most squirm-inducing aspect of this coming-of-age-ish movie is the amount of effort that has gone into making it feel like the smart, off-kilter, affecting alterna-teen romance-fable it so desperately wants to be.
‘Daydream Nation’ is an uncomfortable place to visit Read More
There are various bad things in “All Good Things,” principally a dictatorial father, a submissive son and the tragic fates of the two unfortunate women who married them. These bad things are part of a strange case named David Marks, a fictional character based on Robert A. Durst, the true-life son of a New York real estate developer, Seymour Durst.
All Good Things: Facts revealed during two murder investigations Read More
Today, there are countless superheroes on the movie screens. Batman and Superman on the hand, and Marvel’s superheroes on the other hand, fight against the bad guys who want to take over our world. Looking back on the past years of cinema, we see that the audience was also interested in superheroes in those years. They were very few, but they tried to save the world.
Once upon a time there was Barbarella to save the world Read More
Paris-based race-car-driver and widower Jean-Louis Duroc and movie-script supervisor and widow Anne Gauthier meet when they drop off their respective adolescent children, Antoine and Françoise, at their Deauville boarding school after their regular weekend outings. Despite being attracted to each other, they are guarded with each other, speaking as if their former spouses were still alive.
A look back at Un Homme et Une Femme by Claude Lelouch Read More
Erase the forced smiles from the desperate faces, and what the dance marathons of the 1930s came down to was fairly simple. A roomful of human beings went around and around within four walls for weeks at a time without sleep, populating a circus for others who paid to see them. At the end, those who didn’t collapse or drop dead won cash prizes that were good money during the Depression. And the Depression, in an oblique sort of way, was the reason for it all. The marathons offered money to the winners and distraction to everyone else.
Desperate dancing couples to win prize money Read More
From Michelle Pfeiffer’s Elvira to Madonna’s Susan, Jennifer Beals’ Alex to Winona Ryder’s Veronica, we’re here to show you the style icons of 80’s best-selling movies. In fact, all films reflect the fashion of that year. Therefore, it is very difficult to distinguish between hundreds of films. Nevertheless, we tried to choose the films that best reflect the fashion of the period. We’ve limited the number of films to 6, but you can find much more by imagining the 80s movies.
6 Great movies reflects 80s fashion best Read More
Italian filmmaker Michalengelo Antonioni’s Blow Up tells the story of fashion photographer Thomas (David Hemmings) with a murder in his 60s in London. Antonioni made a film that questioned both the political attitude of his hero and how the audience watched the film.
Blow Up: Beyond the vaguely detail on the photograph Read More
Ever since it screened at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it took home both the audience and cinematography awards, An Education has gone on to charm festival audiences worldwide. But even as it’s generating Oscar buzz—especially for its young lead, Carey Mulligan, who’s been hailed the new Audrey Hepburn—the film has also sparked a fair amount of ire along the way, with a few outraged theatergoers dismissing it as “that pedophile movie” for its depiction of the relationship between a precocious 16-year-old girl (Mulligan) and her sophisticated older lover (Peter Sarsgaard).
An Education: The story of a girl coming of age in pre-Beatles Britain Read More
I was not a fan of “Dirty Dancing,” although $150 million in 1987 box-office dollars attempted, unsuccessfully, to convince me I was wrong. I thought Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey were terrific dancers, and I thought the plot was a clunker assembled from surplus parts at the Broken Plots Store. The actions of the characters (especially her parents) were so foreordained, they played like closing night of a run that had gone on way too long.
Dance against the escalating danger of revolution-eve Cuba Read More