Continuing our crime movie month with a look at Seijun Suzuki’s radical reinterpretation of the Japanese gangster movie.
Tag: Quentin Tarantino
Pulped Friction: Learning To Live With The World’s Most Over-Hyped Movie
Almost three decades on, Pulp Fiction remains the go-to Cool Movie for people who aren’t cool.
Farewell To The Street Fighter
Remembering the great Japanese action star whose perpetually cool career spanned six decades.
Clowns To The Left Of Me, Jokers To The Right…
The moral panic over Joker is a depressing throwback to video nasty hysteria.
Sid Haig 1939 – 2019
Exploitation cinema’s greatest heavy, Sid Haig, has died aged 80.
From First To Last: Old Farts
If some filmmakers outstay their welcome, Quentin Tarantino won’t be the one to judge. Some older fimmakers make boring films (in many respects they are
Eighties Cool Personified in Jim McBride’s Breathless
Jim McBride’s reworking of the Godard classic was widely dismissed at the time, but can now be seen as an ahead-of-its-time study of pop culture and criminal cool.