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…
Cloudpunk: Running in the clouds
Flying cars are a universal symbol of the future for everyone who was born at the end of the twentieth century. In a beautiful place, wheels have long been out of use! Antigravity, a kind-hearted…
The Red Strings Club: the strings of your…
Most of us would like to have our favorite bar, where the bartender, your best friend for the evening, will prepare you "the cocktail" that will make you "feel better." And for the pianist to…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…