Remember Orson Welles? He starred as Charles Foster Kane in one of the greatest movies of all time, Citizen Kane. He also happened to have a hand in writing it and directed […]
I Compell You to Watch This Film – The Witching (1972)
Don’t Knock On… – The Strange Door (1951)
Sometimes all you need is a good villain to really make a film. This movie features one such scoundrel as personified by Charles Laughton. Oftentimes when you see Laughton in a film […]
All That Glitters… – Enemy Gold (1993)
What makes a film great? Directing? Writing? A good crew and a good cast? Arguably all of these things do. Is that what you will find in Enemy Gold? Not by a […]
Metal Heart – Hesher (2010)
Hesher is a 2010 film directed by Spencer Susser, written by Susser and David Michôd and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Rainn Wilson, Natalie Portman and Devin Brochu. The film details a family’s struggle […]
He Should Have Said No – The Yellow Sea (2010)
The Yellow Sea is a gripping thriller about a cab driver named Gu-nam that is in debt to the mob and has no way to pay them back. With nowhere left to […]
Looks Can Be Deceiving – The Snake Woman (1961)
If you were to judge this movie by the title alone, you would probably think it is some Z-list picture with terrible effects. How could you not when the poster itself says […]
Mind in the Machine – Transcendence (2014)
Artificial intelligence has been present in science-fiction for many years now coming from writers like Isaac Asimov to Brian Aldiss to Phillip K. Dick and are present not only in literature, but […]
Lyrical Musings – The Short Film
Sometimes an artist has more to say than a three minute song can contain. In an audio format we have the idea of the concept album where it all flows together like […]
Not Her Fault – Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957)
The opening scene of this movie is horrific, and not because it is a horror film. It is simply shoddy acting, and that is being kind. Also, without the viewer knowing it, […]
Did That Just Happen? – House of the Damned (1963)
House of the Damned is a slick little horror/suspense film that runs along smoothly until it is let down by its very own ending. Up until that moment when all is made […]
The Telltale Mind 