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93. Dr. Strangelove (1964)
by Robert Hornak I saw Dr. Strangelove for the first time in my mid-teens. This was the ’80s and my number one preoccupation in life was to not get blown up by a nuclear bomb. It was inevitable as far...
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92. Southland Tales (2006)
by Jaimie Grijalba This is the second essay on this series on Richard Kelly films. That means there’s only one left and we all know which one is. Coincidently, the films are in the countdown in the...
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91. Letters from a Dead Man/Pisma myortvogo cheloveka (1986)
by Anuk Bavkist Survivors take refuge in a museum cellar-turned-underground bunker. Lit by flickering light bulbs, they resemble the waking dead. Their daily routine finds them manually pedaling to...
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90. The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
by John Greco Frank Sinatra was never shy about expressing his political beliefs. As far back as 1945, he made The House I Live, an eleven minute short film with a plea for tolerance. By 1960, Frank...
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89. Repo Man (1984)
by J.D. Lafrance Repo Man (1984) was part of a fascinating trend during the 1980s of foreign filmmakers seeing America through the eyes of an outsider and making films that identified with...
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Monday Morning Diary (July 18)
by Sam Juliano My weekly post as always is a “diary” and as such my own seven day report is one of unspeakable grief, the worst I have ever experienced in my own life. My brother Joe’s beloved oldest...
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89. District 9 (2009)
by Sachin Gandhi “To everyone’s surprise, the ship didn’t come to a stop…over Manhattan or Washington or Chicago..but instead coasted to a halt directly over the city of Johannesburg.” These opening...
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87. The Time Machine (1960)
By Roderick Heath The 1950s saw the first real boom in cinematic science fiction, and those genre halcyon days owed much to George Pal. The Hungarian-born filmmaker had made his names with a series of...
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86. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
by Lee Price Nonfiction: I’m Not Making This Up This is about the day Jean Renoir watched The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. I’m not making this part up. He went to a matinee. To repeat: Jean Renoir—a...
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BRIAN DE PALMA’S BLOW OUT “If we get this out in the open there’s no one who...
© 2016 by James Clark Brian De Palma—a science prodigy and high school wunderkind—could, no doubt, have carved out a peppy career in some corner of what practitioners call “hard science.” At...
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85. Zardoz (1974)
By Roderick Heath The success of Deliverance (1972) turned John Boorman into a major figure on the cinematic landscape, and gave him the opportunity to do almost anything he wanted. Almost. He first...
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84. Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
By Dean Treadway I have to admit, I was certainly surprised when the first results of this poll were first revealed, mostly because one of my favorite genre entries was not in our top 75. Luckily, when...
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83. It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
by Sam Juliano Another word for Mars is death. Edward Cahn’s It! The Terror from Beyond Space remains a prime example of a modestly budgeted 50’s science fiction film that was gloriously...
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82. On the Silver Globe (1988)
by Anuk Bavkist The very first words heard in On the Silver Globe come from none other than the film’s director, narrating over his own opening footage to help guild his viewers through the ruins of a...
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81. Until the End of the World (1991)
Note: A few captures are provided for this unreviewed title in the countdown. Though such an instance will occur hardly at all during this project, this unfortunately is one time it has happened. I...
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Film Bonanza/Conversations with Allan Fish and Star Trek Beyond on Monday...
Screen cap from 1962 Kon Ichikawa masterpiece “The Outcast” by Sam Juliano Last week’s family tragedy has not abated and won’t for a long time for members of my family and myself, but I have found at...
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(80) Ghost in the Shell, and special guest star (81) Until the End of the World
Bob Clark http://cinemaville.podbean.com/e/cinemaville-2-until-the-end-of-the-world-and-ghost-in-the-shell/?token=cf92e3a5bd7a49cc0e7c54b0bf42678e “Ghost in the Shell” is one of the premier anime...
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79. The Prestige (2006)
by Allan Fish (USA 2006 131m) DVD1/2 Are you watching closely? p Christopher Nolan, Aaron Ryder, Emma Thomas d Christopher Nolan w Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan novel Christopher Priest...
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78. Gravity (2006)
by Christianne Benedict Gravity (2013, directed by Alfonso Cuarón) is a technical marvel and one of the most viscerally terrifying films I’ve ever seen. It’s the very definition of a “ride” movie....
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77. Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
by Sam Juliano It’s time to take a ride on the nightmare merry-go-round You’ll be dead on arrival from the likes of the killer klowns …from outer space -The Dickies Cult cinema has no...
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