Aug 19, 2021 Web Exclusive By Dustin Krcatovich Back in the 1950s, how long do you think people thought it would be before a billionaire asshole was successfully shot into space? I ask, of course, because I watched this new blu-ray of Flight To Mars right around the same time that Mr. Piss Bottles took […]
Tag: Academy Award
Stillwater
Jul 30, 2021 By Kaveh Jalinous Web Exclusive Tom McCarthy, the director of the 2016 Academy Award winner for Best Picture, Spotlight, returns with Stillwater, a sometimes juicy, but mostly overcooked crime thriller. The film centers around Bill Baker (Matt Damon), an oil-rig worker with a cloudy past whose daughter, Allison (Abigail Breslin), has been […]
Each Dawn I Die
May 06, 2021 Web Exclusive By Stephen Danay Thanks to an industry built on type-casting and a relentless rate of production under the Hollywood studio system, James Cagney spent much of the 1930s playing a variety of tough guys and gangsters. After rocketing to fame in the 1931 crime classic The Public Enemy, Cagney had […]
Runaway Train [Special Edition]
Apr 05, 2021 Web Exclusive By Austin Trunick Stonehaven Prison sits deep in the glacial Alaskan tundra. For many years it’s been home for Oscar “Manny” Manheim (Jon Voight), the most notorious of the facility’s inmates. After a court order forces the warden to release the dangerous criminal from solitary confinement—where he’s been welded into […]
Secrets & Lies
Mar 29, 2021 Web Exclusive By Kaveh Jalinous The winner of the Palme d’Or award at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, Mike Leigh’s Secrets & Lies is an incredible family drama that seeps with raw emotion from start to finish. Set in London, the film centers around Hortense (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), a Black adopted child who, […]