Meiko Kaji in Female Convict Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (Joshuu sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bô),Shunya Ito, 1972
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In The Bourne Legacy, Matt Damon’s amnesiac super-soldier Jason Bourne is a shadowy figure, looming invisibly over a plot that for contractual reasons can’t accommodate him. It’s as if he’s…
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The Hunger, 1982, with Ann Magnuson and David Bowie. I can't pin down just when the rather obnoxious mythical litmus test about politicians in a race, that is, "which candidate…
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I take a gander at, or, more accurately, audit, the first twelve of a proposed sixty reissues of the work of Frank Zappa, and the narrative they tell us today,…
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This is the question that came to mind while watching the very excellent ParaNorman, reviewed here for MSN Movies.
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