The full moon is a time of strange, cozy nightmares, sometimes taking on cinematic forms. Animation is the freest and craziest of these forms. I would call Ralph Bakshi one of the craziest and most…
Red Hot (1993): Youth, Love, Rock and Roll,…
Good midnight, Moon Dogs! It's time to howl at the stars and about the cinema! Since the Cold War, Hollywood movie companies have been pelting their viewers with images of "evil Russians" like monkeys with…
Straight to Hell (1987), punk rock stars in…
The art-house film Straight To Hell Straight To Hell Returns (1987) attracted me with its unusual cast. There's punk rock legend Joe Strummer, The Pogues as a Mexican gang, Jim Jarmusch, Elvis Costello, Grace Jones,…
Ford v Ferrari (2019), racer and constructor
Ford v Ferrari (2019). At first glance, it may seem that the heroes of Matt Damon and Christian Bale are opponents. Well, because Ford v Ferrari. Bale versus Damon or vice versa. But in fact,…
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002) – The Whole Truth about…
To be honest, I didn't want to write an article about this film. Even taking into account the fact that Elvis Presley himself appears in the foreground of this film, little rock and roll or…
Joker (2019) – Try on a happy face
The movie Joker (2019) Todd Phillips is certainly very good and impressive. And very sad. Especially if you watch it alone. Among other unfamiliar and possibly lonely people in the audience. Probably there were some.…
Lilo & Stitch (2002) – Hawaii, Kawaii and…
Cartoon Lilo & Stitch (2002) from Disney studios. Somehow in my childhood I missed it. Probably because in my childhood it was not there yet. Yes, that's right! When he came out, I was definitely…
Crazy Heart (2009) – Country Man deserves Love…
Crazy Heart or Crazy Heart, Crazy Heart (2009) is one of the best country films in the genre. This article is about American cinema, but there are also Indian and Turkish films of the same…
Psychos (2015), a film not about the subculture…
The film Psychos (2015) by Alexei Kitaytsev is a film about a youth gang, about a counterculture with an acute social political subtext. It is positioned as an anti-fascist cinema. Representatives of the saykobilly subculture…
Crossroads (1986) or How to Become a Bluesman
I really like it when in one work of art you can find small references to another creation of mankind - and you walk along them, as if on bread crumbs, from one island of…
The Dead Don’t Die (2019) – there are…
The town of Centerville. Very nice place. The scene of Jim Jarmusch's latest film Dead Don't Die (2019). One day the world dislocated a joint. And the film The Dead don't Die is quite a…
Whiplash – a movie where the drummer went…
Perhaps the best film by Damien Chazzell is Whiplash (Whiplash, 2013) - a movie about an aspiring jazz drummer who receives an academic education at a jazz school and wants to become a great musician.…
Best Elvis Presley Movie: Speedway 1968
Boom-shaka-laka! It's time to finally write a couple of lines on our website about one of the many films with the real Elvis Presley! Perhaps someone will ask: why didn't we do this before? Well,…
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (1988) – Zemeckis and…
I had 99 problems today, but I'm finally home and I can watch a movie before going to bed. And an interesting thought came to me: after all, I write articles about albums while listening…
The God’s Gift Enterprise is a noir scam…
New TV series Enterprise "God's Gift" (or Enterprise "Eternal Grace") Perpetual Grace Ltd., (2019) from MGM and Epix companies was shot in a tragicomic genre. The action takes place nowadays in the USA, in the…
Deadwood (2019) – in the Wild West without…
Being a fan of this series, I decided to watch the new feature film Deadwood 2019 (Deadwood The Movie). This is not a spin-off, but rather a logical continuation (or completion?) the events of ten…
The Wild Angels (1966) – not-so-carefree Peter Fonda
Many fans of just about rock and roll Peter Fonda is known primarily as Wyatt from the most famous biker movie of all time - Easy Rider. But at the same time, very few people…
Deuce of Spades: A dream movie that has…
The budget of the Avengers of 2012 was 220 million dollars, while the budget of Deuce Of Spades, released a year earlier, was only 250 thousand dollars. You can't help wondering: what could have been…
In pursuit of Bonnie and Clyde The Highwayman…
Our translators made us happy again: they translated The Highwaymen (2019) by John Lee Hancock as The Highwaymen as in Pursuit of Bonnie and Clyde. Highwaymen are "people from the high road", but not "robbers"…
Going All The Way (1997) – Macho and…
The film Going All The Way (Going All The Way, 1997) is based on the 1970 book of the same name by Dan Wakefield; the writer also wrote the script for the picture. The 50s.…
The Outsiders (1983) – briolinschiki through the eyes…
Interesting fact: Rumble Fish and The Outsiders were filmed "back to back" - that is, somewhat roughly speaking, Francis Ford Coppola shot these two films simultaneously in 1982. Like the Fighting Fish, The Outsiders is…
Bad Times at the El Royale – and…
The title of the film Bad Times At The El Royale (2018) rather translates as "Bad times at The El Royale", but the translators of the rental version did their job like this: "Bad Times…
Runaway Daughters (1994) – a film about real…
A remake of the eponymous old black-and-white film Runaway Daughters (Runaway Daughters, or Daughters on the Run) in 1994, directed by Joe Dante for the TV series Rebel Highway. Again, a small town in the…
The Wanderers (1979) – A movie about guys…
The Wanderers 1979... Frankly, I tried very hard to dodge writing this article. First of all, due to the fact that the second administrator of this site already has quite a good short article on…
Convoy (1978) – the best film about truckers
I think everyone has heard of films based on books or based on historical events, or, I don't know, on folk folklore. Has anyone ever seen movies based on songs? To be honest, I can't…
Roadracers (1994) – the best film about greasers
It is Roadracers (Roadracers, 1994) - the most famous and best film of the Rebel Highway series and the third film by Robert Rodriguez. Before that, he shot El Mariachi, more arthouse than mainstream. There…
Jailbreakers (1994), a film from the Rebel Highway…
Jailbreakers (Jailbreakers, 1994) directed by William Friedkin is a good movie about very bad guys greasers. Jailbreakers is one of a series of films for television Rebel Highway. If you believe IMDB, then he is…
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Stories of…
Joel and Ethan Cohen are shooting a real American epic: whether it's a movie about the "dude" Big Lebowski or about the loser songwriter Llewyn Davis. Here The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs (The Ballad Of…
Rolling Thunder (1977) – Major Rain’s Last Fight
Rolling Thunder (or Thundering Thunder), Rolling Thunder (1977) is a very strong film, dynamic and looks in one breath, despite the fact that it was shot quite a long time ago. As in the films…
Elvis: how the horror master made a movie…
I prefer not to watch biographical films about Elvis. For many reasons, but the most important of them is that the life of such a famous person as Presley, willy-nilly, becomes shrouded in all sorts…
Quarry: the Vietnamese syndrome with black music
Quarry (2016) is a very grievous series. The main character Mac Conway, played by Logan Marshall-Green, is a Vietnam veteran and music lover, who fond of black music and he's the owner of a wonderful…
Christine (1983): Your first and only car
Stephen King is overrated. Damn, a little more - and it will become my watch phrase. But seriously, King does not take quality at all, but quantity. A kind of Daria Dontsova from the horror…
Border Radio – they say musicians are the…
Border Radio is a 1987 black-and-white independent film about California musicians. The plot is that one musician Jeff Bailey from San Diego gets into trouble. Jeff goes on the run to Mexico, it's only 4…
Upgrade (2018) – One day you’ll have to…
Upgrade. Ap... grade... Phew, wait a second, I need to catch my breath. What a wild trip it was! Modern art is so-so, but sometimes the right guys get to it with the right thoughts…
Hot Rods To Hell (1966) 52 Miles of…
Russian translation of the subtitles for another film is called Hot Rods To Hell, and in Russian it is known (to anyone at all) under the name 52 Miles of Fear. The year is 1966.…
Wild at Heart (1990) – Road movie on…
So, comrades, I am bringing into the light of our flashlight a film called Wild at Heart of 1990. This is an extremely unusually filmed drama with admixtures of a thriller and a road movie.…
The Blood Guts Bullets And Octane or Cool…
And this time we're going to tell you about a low-grade action movie called Blood Guts Bullets and Octane (Blood Guts Bullets & Octane). The film is somewhat tedious and definitely delayed, and, in general,…
Thunder Road is the Best Movie Elvis Could…
This time the focus is on a wonderful classic film - the Thunder Road of 1958. A cult black-and-white classic in the USA and something distant and unknown in our country. In America, Thunder Road…
Grand Theft Parsons is a road movie based…
I present to you the movie Grand Theft Parsons. Despite the disgusting translation of the title (the Grand Theft Parsons, according to the Film Search), I liked the translation of the film itself. Two-voice voice…
Rumble Fish (1983) is a stylish film adaptation…
I have one film that I personally could not understand - the Fighting Fish of 1983. From Francis Ford Coppola, the director of the Godfather, by the way. The synopsis says that this is 'a…
The Wild One, bikers of the 50s
Perhaps the most famous among the first films about bikers and motorcycles can be called the iconic film Wild One (The Wild One) of 1953. The plot of the film is based on a short…
The Loveless, a biker movie starring Willem Dafoe
Let me introduce you to the movie Without Love (The Loveless) of 1981. The second role of Willem Dafoe, his first major, and at the same time the first film in which he is mentioned…
Bellflower (2011) – Dreams of the post-apocalypse
The author's cinema is on the agenda. Director, screenwriter, producer, actor, priest, reaper, on the doodler and (probably) just a good man - Evan Glodell. He managed to make an awesome story for 17 thousand…
The Lords of Flatbush, about rebels and causes
The Lords Of Flatbush of 74 is the first film in which Sylvester Stallone had a role with words and, as stated by Sly in an interview in 2006, Richard Gere is still offended by…
The World’s FastestIndian, a film biography of Bert…
One of the best biographical films in my memory is definitely The World's Fastest Indian, a somewhat dramatized biography of the inventor and racer from New Zealand, Bert Munro, who accelerated his 1920 Indian Scout…
Drive (2011): Neon and muscle cars
The movie Drive (2011), perhaps, is somewhat out of our subject. Everyone knows that this movie is exceptionally good, it's full of neon and electronic music. It was Drive that gave us Hotline Miami the…
I Saw The Light, a worthy biopic about…
Several films have been made about Hank Williams until recently, including Your Cheatin' Heart (1964) and Hank Williams: The Show He Never Gave (1980). Was a new biopic really needed? I think biopic films of…
Greased Lightning (1977) – the best NASCAR movie…
I present to you the first film for which I translated subtitles into Russian, and it is perhaps the best among them so far: Greased Lightning 1977. The film is based on the biography of…
The California Kid is one of the best…
Sometimes I get a free minute, and I do what I really want to do: I translate old movies about cars. For example, Russian subtitles for the 1974 film The California Kid by my authorship.…
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) – a trip along Highway…
The Two-Lane Blacktop (Two-Lane Blacktop, 1971) directed by Monte Hellman is one of the backbone of the road movie that blossomed with the lush color of American vineyards in the first half of the 70s.…