Author: Dave Franklin
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Savage Streets (1984)
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Read more: Savage Streets (1984)After starring in The Exorcist at the tender age of fourteen, the world was Linda Blair’s pea green vomit-covered oyster
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Monsters
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Read more: MonstersLike most boys, I quickly developed a love for monsters and supernatural creatures, a morbid fascination only deepened by devouring the novels of Guy N. Smith.
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Foreigners, Eh? Guess They’re All Right
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Read more: Foreigners, Eh? Guess They’re All RightThis article is dedicated to the 2024 Olympics in Paris
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We Can’t Interfere With People’s Beliefs*
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Read more: We Can’t Interfere With People’s Beliefs*I used to be an ESL teacher and I’ll never forget having a chat with my students about ill health and medicine. A Nepalese woman told the class she once caught a life-threatening fever and was immeasurably grateful to her husband for beating her up. It was one of those blink-a-few-times sort of moment as…
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Ghost
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Read more: GhostIt seems I don’t have much luck in trying to expand my horizons with the frown-inducing stuff. Convoluted Italian class struggles, suicidal Holocaust survivors,
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Army of Shadows
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Read more: Army of ShadowsIn my humble opinion, not enough movies have been made about the French Resistance. I can’t even begin to imagine how brave those lot were, covertly operating under the pronounced threat of torture and death
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Nuns on the Run
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Read more: Nuns on the RunIt’s no Tootsie or Some Like It Hot, but the cross-dressing Nuns delivers a goofy, well-paced ninety minutes laced with a gentle mockery of Catholicism.
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More with JFK
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Read more: More with JFKMy eyes tend to glaze when people start trotting out conspiracy theories about the moon landing, 9/11 or the Kennedy assassination.
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Roller Boogie
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Read more: Roller BoogieDespite only having enough plot for a twenty-minute short, Boogie stretches its ultra-lightweight hijinks out for five times as long. This is just as well.
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The Virgin Spring
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Read more: The Virgin SpringI’ve always been wary of Ingmar Bergman. Too intellectual and artsy-fartsy, you know? Sometimes I download one of the Swedish auteur’s flicks only to end up deleting it months later