They Can't All Be Swimf@n
By Brian Prisco | Posted Under Underappreciated Gems | Comments ()
Whenever the annual terrible "Every Breath You Take" mediocre creepy roommate/stalker film gets excreted on the unexpected masses like German porn, the names of the greats are heralded: Single White Female, and Fatal Attraction, and Taxi Driver. Well, of course....
The Ghost Inside
By Drew Morton | Posted Under Underappreciated Gems | Comments ()
Herk Harvey's $30,000 dollar horror film Carnival of Souls (1962) is a cult-film, a low-budget, black and white shocker that spent years on cable access and in the public domain but still elicits both scares and confused looks. Whenever I...
Stupidity Tries
By Drew Morton | Posted Under Underappreciated Gems | Comments ()
After launching themselves to the top tier of comedic directors with their seminal Airplane! (1980) and their spy-spoof follow up, Top Secret! (1984), directors Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker put aside their own brand of genre lampooning temporarily...
The Most Important Motion Picture You Will Ever Attend
By Drew Morton | Posted Under Underappreciated Gems | Comments ()
"When I say that this is the most important motion picture you will ever attend my motivation is not financial gain but a firm belief that the delicate fabric that holds all of us together will be ripped apart unless...
Maximum Ridiculosity
By TK | Posted Under Underappreciated Gems | Comments ()
Dwayne Johnson's career is an enigma. It's been mentioned before, most eloquently in Agent Bedhead's career assessment, but he's got all of the tools to be a Hollywood superstar. He's handsome, built like a Greek god, funny, self-effacing, and a...
Communication Breakdown
By Drew Morton | Posted Under Underappreciated Gems | Comments ()
Perhaps I'm wrong in this assumption, but I've always felt that Joel and Ethan Coen's debut film, Blood Simple (1984), has a tendency to fall under the shadow of their later neo-noir accomplishments, most notably Fargo (1996) and No Country...
I Like to Watch
By Drew Morton | Posted Under Underappreciated Gems | Comments ()
French film theorist André Bazin thought that cinema was unique from any other art form thanks to its ability to represent reality. In his seminal essay "The Ontology of the Photographic Image," Bazin wrote that "Photography and cinema...are discoveries that...
Two Against Nature
By Drew Morton | Posted Under Underappreciated Gems | Comments ()
Nicholas Roeg's directorial debut Walkabout (1971) is one of those films that one could justifiably write either briefly or at great length about. The script, an adaptation of James Vance Marshall's novel, was rumored to have been between 14 and...
Good Day Sunshine
By Drew Morton | Posted Under Underappreciated Gems | Comments ()
First off, a note to all the readers expecting my promised review of Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974): it simply isn't going to happen because TK reviewed it a few years back. For the most part, it has been the editorial...
Your Penis is So Handsome
By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Underappreciated Gems | Comments ()
A year before Old School and three years before The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Wedding Crashes really kicked off the "Bromantic" era, a largely overlooked, poorly reviewed, and underappreciated Lady Bromance flick, The Sweetest Thing came and disappeared without much notice....
Welcome to a World Without Rules
By Drew Morton | Posted Under Underappreciated Gems | Comments ()
First off, to those of you expecting a review of Chinatown (1974) as promised in the hint that was contained in the Blue Velvet (1986) piece, I apologize. Chinatown will be the next film covered in the retrospective. I simply...
Easy Rider, Raging Limey
By Drew Morton | Posted Under Underappreciated Gems | Comments ()
Those of you still pondering Dustin's posts on the Schreiber Theory (screenwriters are the authors of the film, not directors, as the auteur theory posits) would do yourselves a great service in watching Steven Soderbergh's The Limey (1999) and listening...
They're Gonna Put Me in the Movies
By Drew Morton | Posted Under Underappreciated Gems | Comments ()
I realized the other night that I had, one year earlier, posted my first review at Pajiba. Looking to celebrate the occasion in a unique way, I looked upon my DVD collection for a film to review. I had promised...
If I Should Fall From Grace With God
By TK | Posted Under Underappreciated Gems | Comments ()
I honestly didn't know much about Saved! when I sat down to watch it a couple of nights ago. I knew it had something to do with Christian kids and pregnancy, and that it had a surprisingly talented cast. Released...
"I Live in the Weak and the Wounded"
By Steven Lloyd Wilson | Posted Under Underappreciated Gems | Comments ()
Phil: "Gordy? You look tired, man. You look beat. Your turn to feed Emma?" When I was in high school, the debate team was at Stanford University for a tournament. The debate tournaments at Stanford were legendary for running until...
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