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Foundational Cinema

Month: May 2015

Meteor (1979)

As a person who loves disaster movies (in spite of it being a basically flawed genre), I could not hate this movie as much as most people seem to. It is a big budget disaster about a disaster and much…

Nightfall

Judging by looking at this movie, the film-makers must have thought they had gold. The original source material seemed good enough to create and interesting and deep thought provoking sci-fi movie with. I seemed however like they had no idea…

The Amazing Mr. X (1948)

‘The Amazing Mr X’ starts out implying that it’s going to be a supernatural story, featuring a medium (Turhan Bey as the sinister Alexis) with genuine psychic powers, which he kindly wields for the benefit of wealthy widow Christine. Then,…

Nightfall (2000)

Judging by looking at this movie, the film-makers must have thought they had gold. The original source material seemed good enough to create and interesting and deep thought provoking sci-fi movie with. I seemed however like they had no idea…

The Chase (1946)

In Miami, Chuck Scott (Robert Cummings), a decorated war veteran down on his luck, finds a wallet on the street and returns it to its owner, wealthy Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran). He’s offered a job on the spot as Roman’s…

The Leopard Man (1943)

Dark and creepy film based on the Cornell Wollrich novel “Black Alibi” about a leopard on the loose in the desert and towns of New Mexico. With deep and disturbing psychological overtones that strikes more fear in the hearts of…

Love Bites (2001)

A nightclub gadfly (Guillame Canet) sneaks into a private party by claiming to know a guy named “Jordan”. The host catches him and enlists his aid in finding this guy “Jordan”, which he agrees to for some reason. After a…

B. Monkey (1998)

Thanks to director Michael Radford — who I wrongly assumed to be eighty or ninety years of age on the basis of his last movie, Il Postino — B. Monkey is as seductive as the single bar of red neon…

The European Drive-in Rises

For years the American Drive-in experience was just that, an American experience. But in quest to re-invigorate movie going Europeans have taken a page from the drive-in handbook and re-purposing the idea of a drive-in within their own cultural experience….

Evil Toons (1992)

Four girls get dropped off to clean a house and end up unleashing an evil, lascivious toon that wants to do evil, lascivious things. This all happens after some female bonding, female unbonding, gratuitous nudity and plenty of bad acting….

Psych-Out (1968)

Traveling to the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco to find her hippie brother Steve, Bruce Dern, pretty but hard of hearing Jenny Davis, Susan Strasberg, get’s hooked up with a number of local hippie musicians and an high hippie Guru….