MONDO 70: A Wild World of Cinema

A randomly comprehensive survey of extraordinary movie experiences from the art house to the grindhouse, featuring the good, the bad, the ugly, but not the boring or the banal.

Tuesday, January 30, 2018

THE SLAVE (Il figlio di Spartacus, 1962)

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W hen Kirk Douglas's dying Spartacus is shown his infant son and told he's free at the end of Stanley Kubrick's 1960 film, pro...

Saturday, January 27, 2018

On the Big Screen: HOSTILES (2017)

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S cott Cooper's western has come touted in some quarters as "the best western since Unforgiven ," as has every promising fil...

Wednesday, January 24, 2018

THE WORTHY (2016)

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A mericans, Europeans and Japanese share a wide range of post-apocalyptic fantasies, but it's unusual to see similar fantasies from ot...

Saturday, January 20, 2018

Too Much TV: THE GIFTED (2017 - ?)

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D isney's purchase of Twentieth Century-Fox most likely marks the beginning of the end of the X-Men mythos as an independent media franc...

Monday, January 15, 2018

SINGAPORE (1960)

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W hile the "Bollywood" practice of integrating songs into practically every genre of film has deep Indian cultural roots, it...

Saturday, January 13, 2018

On the Big Screen: THE SHAPE OF WATER (2017)

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B asically, Guillermo del Toro made a Tim Burton film, down to the kitschy nostalgia and the alienated misfits sticking it to bourgeois so...

Thursday, January 11, 2018

IN THE SHADOW OF THE EAGLES (All'ombra della aquile, 1966)

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C ameron Mitchell was near the end of his European sojourn and the peplum was near the end of its time as a popular genre when the America...

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