The Innocents
Jack Clayton’s atmospheric film is one of the finest ghost stories in British cinema.
Review by Virginie Sélavy
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Foxy Brown
Despite the obvious star power of its lead Pam Grier, Jack Hill’s blaxploitation classic deserves more respect than its reputation as a female Shaft.
Review by Robert Barry
The Last Exorcism
It’s that old Penn and Teller sketch. First you show them how it’s done - how it’s usually done, how those other schmucks would do the trick - then you do the trick again, only this time you do it differently, better, and with such élan, such verve, that no one’s going to work out how you did it, even though you just told them how.
Review by Robert Barry
Online Movies: Activist Cinema
The internet, perhaps the greatest public archive ever created, must surely count as one of the most powerful weapons in the fight for social justice and seems a natural home for activist cinema.
Review by Robert Barry
Online Movies: davidlynch.com
One of the most popular features of davidlynch.com is the crudely drawn animated series Dumbland.
Review by Robert Barry
Inside
Inside (2007), a story that involves a tremendous amount of apparently meaningless and at times extremely gruesome violence towards a heavily pregnant mother-to-be, offers just such a savage analysis of the malaise of which it is a symptom, both exploiting and dissecting the bourgeois fear of a threat no longer external.
Review by Robert Barry