Leviathan asks if its characters can escape an aquasapien creature. Today, you question if the monster movie all-stars that made it could swim through saturated genre waters and come out…
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Lady Snowblood (1973) is called the biggest “inspiration” for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill films. But this is nobody’s stepping stone. The pulpy, blood-spattering, heart-in-mouth revenge tale carries an inimitable cinematic…
Ah, the getaway pilot. Whatever your heist film, whatever your cargo, many of film’s thieving gangs have that all-important wheelman (or woman). These expert redline shifters come with “a particular…
Southern Comfort, the whiskey, takes hours to digest. Southern Comfort, Walter Hill’s action thriller, will haunt you much longer. That is if you’ve ever even heard of it. Google the…
Whether it’s rumors of records played backward that unlock Satanic messages or controversial tracks like the Rolling Stones’s Sympathy for the Devil, blues and rock ‘n roll music have long…
Hard Times Review: Walter Hill and Charles Bronson’s Depression-Era Bare-Knuckle Brawler “Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.” They’re the flamboyant words of boxer Mike…
In the early 90s, your local Boot Barn must have been rejoicing. All things vaquero were at the forefront of popular culture. Country music star Garth Brooks was dominating the…
In 1980, westerns weren’t riding high. Despite their popularity in the 60s and 70s, saturation and the rise of sci-fi (Star Wars) flatlined the genre. The jingoistic, heroic exploits of…
Director Walter Hill will be forever famous for The Warriors, the film where colorful New York street gangs are as interested in coordinated, daring fashion choices as guarding their turf.…
I have a terrible sin to confess. Despite being a cult film lover, especially movies from the 1970s and 1980s, I had never seen the entire filmography of John Carpenter.…