Fairyland is the debut feature from director Andrew Durham, a long-term collaborator of Sofia Coppola, who is one of the producers on the film. Coppola optioned Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father by Alysia Abbott, the source book for the film, soon after its publication. No doubt she saw some similarities with her own upbringing around the same … Continue reading Fairyland – Film Review (Sundance 2023)
David Cronenberg has fittingly created his own franchise through his bodily functions instead of making sequels to his own films: Infinity Pool is the latest film from his son Brandon Cronenberg, and it’s undeniable that he came out of David’s balls. Like father, like son… Brandon’s new film is a hallucinatory descent into hell. Alexander Skarsgård … Continue reading Infinity Pool – Film Review (Sundance 2023)
Back in 1989, Todd Solondz made a Woody-Allenesque comedy, Fear, Anxiety & Depression, for a studio—and promptly swore off filmmaking for the next few years. He was a ESL teacher to Russian immigrants in NY in-between that project and his second feature, Welcome to the Dollhouse, in 1995. He only gave filmmaking another shot because … Continue reading Welcome to the Dollhouse – Blu-Ray Review
Walking the Edge was directed by actress Nancy Kwan’s husband, Norbert Meisel, as a vehicle for his wife. Meisel’s past before this film included directing a couple of pornos as well as directing and acting in other films, mainly in the crime, war and sexploitation vein. This one is a good, low-budget ‘80s crime thriller … Continue reading Walking the Edge – Blu-Ray Review
Death of a Gunfighter is best known as the first film “directed” by “Allen Smithee.” The real directors were Robert Totten and Don Siegel. Totten left the film and was followed on set by Siegel, a professional and relatively decent guy who didn’t feel like he had done enough work to deserve credit for the … Continue reading Death of a Gunfighter – Blu-Ray Review
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