Movie Reviews… Retro Review: The Man Who Fell to Earth 20 Jan 201612 Nov 2017 United Kingdom. Directed by Nicolas Roeg, 1976. Starring David Bowie, Rip Torn, Candy Clark, Buck Henry, Bernie Casey. 139 minutes. 7/10 David Bowie scored his first hit single in 1969: "Space…
Movie Reviews… Retro Review: Manhunter 29 May 201512 Nov 2017 United States. Directed by Michael Mann, 1986. Starring William Petersen, Dennis Farina, Kim Griest, Tom Noonan, Brian Cox, Stephen Lang, Joan Allen. 121 minutes. Thomas Harris's 1981 novel Red Dragon, the…
Movie Reviews… Retro Review: Poltergeist 23 May 201512 Nov 2017 United States. Directed by Tobe Hooper, 1982. Starring Craig T. Nelson, JoBeth Williams, Dominique Dunne, Oliver Robins, Heather O'Rourke, Zelda Rubenstein. 114 minutes. Premise: "They're here." Steve and Diane Freelings are a…
Movie Reviews… Retro Review: Over the Edge 6 May 201512 Nov 2017 United States. Directed by Jonathan Kaplan, 1979. Starring Michael Kramer, Matt Dillon, Pamela Ludwig. 95 minutes. Welcome to New Granada, the planned community of the future, bringing twentieth-century European living…
Movie Reviews… Retro Review: Time After Time 19 Mar 201512 Nov 2017 United States. Directed by Nicholas Meyer, 1979. Starring Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen. 112 minutes. "What if H.G. Wells really was a time traveler?" is a logical question and one…
Movie Reviews… Retro Review: Last Night 10 Mar 201512 Nov 2017 Canada. Directed by Don McKellar, 1998. Starring Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Callum Keith Rennie. 95 minutes. The world ends at midnight and the citizens of Toronto try to make the best of what…
Movie Reviews… Retro Review: The Freakmaker 6 Mar 201512 Nov 2017 United Kingdom. Directed by Jack Cardiff, 1974. Starring Donald Pleasance, Tom Baker, Brad Harris. 92 minutes. Half Freaks, half Frankenstein, half Quatermass Experiment, and half Hammer Horror, Jack Cardiff's 1974 film The Freakmaker (originally released…
Movie Reviews… Retro Review: Enter the Void 3 Mar 201512 Nov 2017 France. Directed by Gaspar Noé, 2009. Starring Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy. 143 minutes. I think someone once said that his definition of a good television series was…
Movie Reviews… Retro Review: Tenebrae 28 Oct 201412 Nov 2017 Italy. Directed by Dario Argento, 1982. Starring Anthony Franciosa, Daria Niccolodi, John Saxon. 100 minutes. American novelist Peter Neal (Anthony Franciosa), known for writing graphically violent crime thrillers, arrives in Rome…
Movie Reviews… Retro Review: The Cars that Ate Paris 13 Oct 201412 Nov 2017 Australia. Directed by Peter Weir, 1974. Starring Terry Camilleri, John Meillon, Kevin Miles. 88 minutes (Criterion cut). Australia, the mid-'70s. The country is in the midst of an economic downturn. Unemployment is…
