The review is dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the release of the movie Goodfellas (1990) by Martin Scorsese. Let's immediately clarify the underlying meanings of the name of the tape. It would seem that…
Rebel (1985) Love during the war
In the midst of World War II, the Pacific campaign of 1942, the Japanese are fleeing Guadalcanal, and the American Marines who survived the battles are trying to recover in Sydney bars. The sergeant nicknamed…
Mobland (2025) a wolf pack from the 90s
The crime drama MobLand (2025) from showrunner Ronan Bennett, creator of "Jackal's Day" and "Top Boy" takes us back to the Foggy Albion. Nostalgia for the 90s to the sounds of Prodigy, Jamiroquai and the…
The Flaming Star – Elvis Presley in a…
The cinematic career of Elvis Presley began in 1956 with the musical western "Love Me Tender", so named after the famous ballad "Love Me Tender", which the king of rock and roll recorded specifically for…
The 15 Best Movies by Kris Kristofferson
Kris Kristofferson gained fame at the age of Christ, in 1969. In the very year that was imprinted in history as the "Summer of Love." Apparently, the stars came together in such a way that…
In memory of Kris Kristofferson. Part III: Mean…
"Don't look back, maybe something follows on your heels." Part I. Part II. A lanky guy in a brown leather jacket is dragging a guitar case, which is getting heavier by the minute, to a…
Loving You (1957) – Elvis Presley’s first starring…
As a rule, the King's early films are rated higher than his later films. Not least because Elvis at that time was not yet disappointed with all the ins and outs of the processes that…
Clint Eastwood’s 10 Best Movies Directed by
Clint Eastwood is 95! And the most amazing thing is that with such fantastic numbers on the scoreboard of life, we can't talk about it in the past tense. Perhaps we are still waiting for…
Clint Eastwood: The 10 best roles that shook…
Reviewing the achievements of the world cinema of the last sixty years, one could, paraphrasing a well-known saying: wherever you see, Clint is everywhere! In this exclamation, of course, there is some exaggeration, but not…
The best movies about the WW2. Part 3…
Our third "magnificent seven" (part 1, part 2) of films about the World War II will present tapes of Western screen masters dedicated to some dramatic pages of those years. With all the abundance of…
The best Soviet films about the war. Part…
The second "magnificent Seven" films about World War II (here is the first selection) will present films by Soviet screen masters dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. The selection of films presented below is very…
The best war films for Victory Day: Part…
We present an overview of the best war films for the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory. The Second World War, which contained several theaters of military operations colossal in importance and bloodshed, received its…
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971): Welcome to Purgatory!
If Dante Alighieri had miraculously resurrected in the year 1971 from the Birth of Christ and accidentally got into the cinema hall, where the tape "Support Your Local Gunfighter" was on, he could have admired…
Landman (2024): The Nobility of Leeches
We once met a plane with a fuel tanker on a deserted Texas road, and the tanker won, it had more wheels with it. Once a Mexican artel tried to turn the valve of an…
The Sorcerer (1977): The Roads Not Taken
The Sorcerer (Sorcerer, 1977) is a movie from the lists of "the best movies of the 70s that you have never seen." It is formally considered a remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Fear Fee (1953)…
Rock A-Doodle: A troubadour from a poultry farm
With the first cock song, the pigs will grunt, the burenki will mumble, the sheep will bleat, the pannochka will hide. The Chanticleer rooster is responsible for the sunrise with his rockabilly cry, which will…
The sequel to the Iron Grip – Rooster…
Shot exactly half a century ago, "Rooster Cogburn" for the first time brought together on the screen two of the brightest stars of the Golden Age of American cinema. The names of John Wayne and…
Sunset Boulevard (1950) tragicomic noir by Billy Wilder
The Oscar-winning Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Boulevard, 1950) by Billy Wilder is a classic noir and satirical black comedy and psychological drama, and a film dedicated to the stars of the old era of silent cinema.…
The Vanishing Point (1971): A white Dodge Challenger…
Perhaps the most iconic road movie of all and... I have no idea what to write about. The fact is that even the most iconic road movie is, after all, a road movie. Someone goes…
Sholay and the Law (1975) Indian Western
There are films that, having watched just once, you become a prisoner of them forever. They give such strong feelings that they continue to live in you for whole episodes, as if you yourself were…
The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960): There…
In my childhood, TV was something magical. Magic was dispensed in doses and on schedule. Films for children were specially celebrated in the TV program and each time it was a meeting with a wonderful,…
Lake George (2024): a place where you can…
Jeffrey Rayner's optional but interesting Los Angeles neo-noir Lake George (2024) is a genre black comedy rather than a thriller. As in the God's Gift Enterprise, events occur in the film when the viewer is…
A golden bullet for the general: Zapata-Western about…
This film by the Italian classic of political detectives and the future creator of the legendary "Octopus" was created in the wake of the success of the spaghetti Western genre invented by Sergio Leone and…
Petroleum Girls (1971) – the first fem-Western
The little-known French comedy Petroleum Girls (Les Petroleuses, 1971) is a film that is no longer filmed in the XXI century. Two iconic actresses at their best. Claudia Cardinale and Brigitte Bardot are two adventurer…
The Touch of Evil (1958): The Last Noir
If you are at least a bit of a movie buff, then most likely you know who George Orson Welles is. Even if you think you don't know. Two words: Citizen Kane. In fact, the…
The 6 Best Country Music Films Made in…
Do you like country music? If your answer is "no", then you probably just didn't listen to her, or listened, but not at all. Here is a selection of modern films shot mainly in the…
Dance of the Vampires: A Bite on a…
In the film "Once upon a Time in Hollywood," Quentin Tarantino, in a peculiar buffoonish manner, confesses his love for the Dream Factory, but his second attempt after Inglourious Basterds to play in the glade…
3 Godfathers – John Ford’s Christmas Western
The year 1948 was unusually fruitful for excellent westerns made in Hollywood. The following films have been released: John Huston's Oscar-winning neo-western "The Treasures of the Sierra Madre", Norman MacLeod's comedy western "Pale Face", George…
High Plains Drifter (1973): Clint Eastwood’s first directorial…
High Plains Drifter (High Plains Drifter, 1973) was, in fact, the second film where Eastwood not only played the main role, but also completely controlled the shooting process as a director. But "Play Misty for…
Fallout (2024): From the great to the ridiculous,…
"The war... War never changes." - Ron Perlman groans eerily off-screen. In the frame, someone who has tightened his face with a gas mask is statically threatening with a militaristic helmet. The game in the…
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970): Cowboy and…
The time of action of the western Two Mules for Sister Sara (Two Mules for Sister Sara, 1970), which has now become a classic, is perfectly described by Joseph Brodsky in his "Mexican Divertissement" -…
– The Devil and Daniel Webster Shortcut to…
The little-known film "The Devil and Daniel WebsterShortcut To Happiness" (2004) is the directorial debut of Alec Baldwin, he is also starring as an unlucky writer. The shortcut to happiness is like a shortcut, I…
Hellboy. Curse of the Hunchback: Down the Crooked…
A freight train at full speed goes off the rails to the raucous rockabilly Knees Shakin' Don Terry. A bald devil, an Asian woman, and a giant demon-possessed arachnid fly out of the carriage. A…
The Thing Called Love (1993) Who gets Presley’s…
The film "What is called Love" (1993) by Peter Bogdanovich has a difficult fate. Due to the fact that The Thing Called Love is about country music, the film was released only in the southern…
The Blob (1958), or Don’t Let the Blobs…
Beware of the Blob, It creeps and leaps, And glides, and slides Across the floor Right through the door And all around the wall A splotch, a blotch. Be careful of the Blob! Unfortunately, the…
The Penguin (2024): Laying Low in Gotham
There is an eternal holiday in the city of Gotham. People here make up regularly and with imagination, and they come up with witty costumes for themselves. Because this holiday is Halloween. It would be…
The Bikeriders (2023) – live photo album of…
The movie Bikerider (The Bikeriders, 2023 or 2024?) these are sketches from the life of Bikeriders to the soundtrack of a random set of music of the 60s. Director Jeff Nichols, he is also an…
Highway To Hell (1991) a hit of video…
Highway to Hell (Highway To Hell or Greetings from the Highway To Hell, 1991) is an adventure movie with elements of horror and comedy from director Eita de Jong. Despite some trash and the status…
El Topo (1969) Acid Western by Alejandro Jodorowsky
To the 95th anniversary of the great magician of the cinema screen. Alejandro Jodorowsky, who was born on February 17, 1929 in the Chilean town of Tocopilla, is rightfully called the magician of the cinema…
The Great Silence (Il grande silenzio): A cult…
Il grande silenzio (1968) - the title of this film is translated both as “The Silent One” and as “The Great Silence” (The Great Silence) and both variants have their own meaning. Agreeing to participate…
My Name Is Nobody (Il Mio nome e…
My Name Is Nobody. This picture by Tonino Valeria, which was released on the big screen in the pre-Christmas days of 1973, can be safely called an excellent postscript to the films of the great…
Heaven’s Burning (1997), Australian version of Knocking On…
Heaven's Burning (Heaven's Burning, 1997) is a little-known Australian film that attracted me with the appearance of the main character - a young Russell Crowe wears whiskers and looks like a greaser. The film directed…
Pale Rider (1985): A Horseman named Death
His name is Death or the Pale Rider (1985). This film will prove to those who do not like westerns at all that they are wrong. It should be watched by all fans of dramatic…
The Car: The Road of Revenge (2019) –…
I want to start this article with a small remark that may save you a couple of minutes: The Car of 2019 is absolutely an average movie in all respects. And I'm not sure if…
Chainsaw Man: Bloody action and puberty senen
There is a world of people and there is a world of demons. Demons feed on people's fears and are often their offspring. In the human world, a special department has been created to combat…
Marlowe: Gentlemen preferred blondes
The craft of a private investigator disposes to adventures: here and the search for pets, and the observation of spouses on the slippery path of adultery, and the development of a film with evidence of…
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane: Thrash, Rock and…
The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990) is one of the craziest and wackiest movies I've ever seen. This film adaptation of Rex Weiner's comics 1979-1980 is an eclectic thrash and black comedy with music and…
Velvet Goldmine (1998) – what a biography of…
I downloaded the movie Velvet Goldmine (Velvet Gold Mine or Velvet Mines) back in 2015 due to the presence of T.Rex songs, all this time it was lying on my old hard drive and only…
Dead Beat (1994): The Story of Charles Schmid,…
Albuquerque 1965. The movie Dead Beat first begins as a youth comedy, and then it becomes clear that this is a cruel drama. It's as if director Adam Dubov is intimately familiar with detectives investigating…
The Car (1977): Angrier than Christine
Dear friends. This year has been difficult. Cough-cough. The movie won't be the best either. At least, according to film critics, who gave him only 28 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. The audience delivered almost twice…
Elvis (2022): The Confessions of Karabas
It's a quiet Nevada night. A rare coyote will run to the middle of the Mojave. Only in the distance there are golden flashes, and then it's not lightning, then the city of Las Vegas…
Redline (2009): Sci-fi rock’n’roll in Japanese
Since certain events of the 90s of the last century left ordinary citizens of our country virtually without their own cultural works, it is quite easy to understand the phenomenon that, in fact, every child…
Columbo: Swan Song by Johnny Cash, The Man…
Prison bird Tommy Brown seduced 16-year-old backing vocalist Mary Ann 3 years ago and pretended that he was walking the path of the righteous. In fact, he has long wanted to master family money and…
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986): Boyfriend from the…
Despite the fact that I am familiar with many movie hits of the 80s, the film Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) undeservedly passed me by. Peggy Sue remains one of such underestimated pictures, the popularity…
Sometimes They Come Back (1991): Evil briolinschiki from…
I never get tired of repeating that Stephen King is a terribly overrated writer. But, by some irony of fate, it is Comrade King who is perhaps the most famous creator, in whose works from…
Yellow Rose: where country dreams lead
Have you tried hammering a square peg into a round hole? Especially when it's out of size. When the hat is not on Senka, the uniform is not on the rank. Square Peg Round Hole…
Why Women Kill, Season 2: Plump Devils of…
The elite of society is most successful at pretending to be the elite of society. While husbands with dignified gestures drop cigar ash on the weak of this world, wives are busy with other important…
The Hero (2017) – what to do for…
I first noticed Sam Elliott in The Big Lebowski, where his epic character The Stranger appears to Jeff Bridges' Dude as if in a narcotic half-reality. That gray-haired guy with a huge mustache and a…
Hostiles (2017): Enemies are better than friends
Who would have thought that the retirement of the Cheyenne leader could turn into a headache comparable to saving Private Ryan. The Western Hostiles (Hostiles, 2017) will try to tell us how it turned out…
The Junkman (1982): A cult film with original…
Henry Blythe Halicki was an unusual man. He had a good business, he had enough money for dozens of cars and at least for all the equipment that was required for the filming of the…
Perry Mason (2020): In the Service of a…
In the 1930s, the grass was greener and the air cleaner, for objective reasons. On both sides of the Pacific Ocean, the USSR and the USA built, in their own way, colossal powers. Prohibition and…
Cry-Baby: the most rock’n’roll movie of the 90s
The action of the movie Cry-Baby (Cry Baby, 1990) takes place in Baltimore, Maryland. The year is 1954. There are decent Clean boys-girls studying at the local high school (The Squares), but the drop of…
Rebel Without a Cause (1955): Where are your…
Stuart Stern, screenwriter of Rebel Without a Cause: "This is the story of a generation that became adults overnight." The action of the film covers 24 hours in the lives of three teenagers: Jim, Judy…
HannieCaulder (1971), Revenge served cold
Hannie Caulder Hannie Caulder (1971) is a British western starring Raquel Welch with quotes from spaghetti westerns by Sergio Leone, it can also be attributed to exploitation films. And of course this is the story…
American Graffiti (1973) – a ballad about a…
A cozy Friday afternoon movie of the kind that was often shown in Russia in the late 90s. Innocent pranks of a provincial American city. Cars with a needle, cover girls. Creating relationships and figuring…
Conagher (1991) a western about a real man
In 1968, the novel "Conagher" was published from the pen of the recognized writer of westerns Louis Lamour, and in 1991 Reynaldo Villalobos made a film of the same name for American television based on…
John Bronco (2020): A cultural phenomenon of America
How does mockumentary differ from documentary? Probably because in the first case it is somehow fiction. John Bronco is a man and a steamboat. And a reader, and a reaper, and a doodler. A national…
The Blues Brothers (1980): The Cult of Coolness
The Birth of The Blues Brothers, Blues Brothers (1980). Dan Aykroyd (Elwood) has long been fond of the blues. He sang and played the harmonica. It is difficult to understand from the appearance whether a…
Ratched (Ratched Sister): Sisters are not what they…
The old profurset, which was drunk back in the days of Prohibition, contains a motel where moths with cameras flew through the left wing. Sensation: a special copy will soon arrive at a fashionable hotel…
Patsy & Loretta (2019): An ode to the…
Patsy and Loretta (2019) is a biopic about the friendship of two women, country singers Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn. The film was shot for the Lifetime TV channel by director Callie Khouri, who at…
Six-String Samurai (1998) – genius or chance?
The Russians dropped a bomb on the United States in 1957, Elvis became not only the king of rock and roll, but also the real autocrat of the only surviving city - the Lost Vegas.…
Trust (2018) – Take care of your ears…
Sardonically bright sun, sarcastically Pinkfloyd's "Mopeu" - the scenery of an ancient tragedy, where the pagan rascality of the rich and hangers-on in a Californian villa turns into a nightmarish farce: Gordon, the manager and…
Cadillac Records (2008) – A Plastic excursion into…
Cadillac Records (Cadillac Records, 2008) is a movie that came out when I was starting to get interested in the blues. He became my first blues guide: Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers, Howlin' Wolf,…
WandaVision (2021) – Marvel spin-off in the spirit…
An 8-episode Marvel miniseries on the Disney Channel+ Wanda/Vision (WandaVision, 2021) launched on January 15th. Wanda Maximoff and Vision are heroes from the Marvel cinematic universe. The first 2 episodes of Vandavision are stylizations of…
Shake Rattle & Rock (1994) – Moms vs.…
In the clip of the Rebel Highway TV series, we have the last tenth review left: Shake Rattle And Rock (1994) - a remake of the 1956 film. Susan (Renee Zellweger) and a couple of…
Girls In Prison (1994) – the story around…
Another film from the Rebel Highway series is Girls In Prison (Girls In Prison, 1994). A detective story based on the rockabilly standard of Jody Reynolds. Director John McNaughton, who had shot Mad Dog and…
Gunfight (1971) – for whom does the bell…
A Gunfight is a Gunfight (1971) western drama by Lamont Johnson about two aging shooters, played by Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash. Both are legends dear to the Russian heart. Johnny because Cash, Kirk because…
Monsterland (2020) – American Scary Bedtime Stories
An eight-episode series of Monsterland (Monsterland) launched on October 2, 2020 on the Hulu channel. The author of the screenplay is Mary Laws based on the collection of short stories by Nathan Ballingrud "Monsters of…
Reform School Girl (1994) – a non-strict regime…
The film The Girl from the penal colony (1994) directed by Jonathan Kaplan was filmed for the TV series Rebel Highway. This is the eponymous remake of the 1957 film Reform School Girl. Pretty girl…
The Confessions of a Sorority Girl (1994) –…
We continue to review the Rebellious Highway series of TV movies and Confessions of a Sorority Girls (1994) is next in line - however, everyone is confused, is it a confession of one girl or…
The Devil Is Always The Devil All The…
The Devil All The Time, 2020 (The Devil Is The Devil All The Time) is a film by Antonio Campos in the genre of American Gothic. The action begins in Ohio in 1957, then moves…
Dorohedoro (2020): Cyberpunk fantasy, ultra-violence and black humor
I have loved the anime genre for years...twelve years ago, however, I rarely watch it, but accurately. In one of the reviews of animated series for high school age, I drew attention to Dorohedoro (2020),…
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: something is broken in…
Shhh... 1958. Now you know the PIN code of my bank card. What do Odessa of the Ukrainian SSR and New York of the USA have in common? The Jews. And, although Aunt Faya from…
Cruise (2018): Summer, Dragstrip, Retrowave
The action of the movie Cruise (Cruise, 2018) takes place in the summer in New York in 1987. A young American of Italian descent, Gio Fortunato (Spencer Boldman), lives carefree and fun: he participates in…
Cool and the Crazy (1994): Big kids, Big…
Ralph Bakshi's only full-length feature film is Cool and the Crazy (Cool and the Crazy, 1994) from the Rebel Highway series, his next work after the Cool World. In fact, the name should be translated…
Johnny Suede (1991) – An ode to rockabilly…
This is the first film by Tom DiCillo, who, before becoming a director, worked as a cameraman for Jim Jarmusch, so Johnny Suede (Johnny Suede, 1991) was called another-about-Jarmusch-movie. The main role is played by…
Cool World (1992) – sex, fantasy and noir…
Cool World (Cool World, 1992) is a film by Ralph Bakshi about an artist who draws comics while in prison and before being released discovers that the characters he drew exist in a fantasy world…
The Big Town Blues (1987) – You Can’t…
The amazing thing is, this movie once passed me by, and I discovered it for myself only now. Ben Bolt completed the work of Harold Becker, having completed the 1987 film The Big Town (Big…
Motorcycle Gang (1994), a noir about violent bikers
The most violent film from the TV series about the Rebellious Highway is perhaps the Motorcycle Gang (Motorcycle Gang, 1994). Actually, director John Milius is known for filming military dramas, a bias towards right-wing extremism…
The Dragstrip Girl (1994): A grisly romance
Starting the Rebel Highway project, producer Lou Arkoff wondered: "What if Rebel Without Cause was filmed today? He would definitely be darker, sexier and more dangerous." So the movie Dragstrip Girl (Dragstrip Girl, 1994) is…
Project Blue Book: The X-Files before the X-Files
No, it's not the moon... Not a reflection of a light bulb in a dark window... Sometimes it resembles a saucer from my grandmother's tea set, sometimes it resembles Comrade Fidel's cigar. This Is An…
Hair High – Hair High (2004): School secrets…
Night is a great time to rummage in the dump of consciousness. Last year's delirious delirium, images of a three-day binge, unspoken idiotic jokes - there is a use for everything, you just have to…
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy: Mad Max on the…
Good evening, dear friends. Make yourself comfortable by the fireplace and sip your favorite wine. Today I present to the attention of cinema lovers a film called Death Race: Beyond Anarchy (2018). On the screen…
Miller’s Crossing (1990): It’s not in the hat
The night calls and repels, cradles and scares. How many shades of darkness will the mortal eye discern? How much darkness will his heart contain? In the very heart of this darkness live ugly greedy…
The Irishman (2019): Married to the Mafia
Martin Scorsese's mafiosi are similar to Takeshi Kitano's yakuza, they are taciturn gloomy samurai who, when the opportunity presents itself, deftly control weapons. Just look at how Robert de Niro gracefully dances with a gun.…