By - Gareth Jones For fans of Sylvester Stallone, the 80’s, and documentaries about iconic Hollywood legends This spring, I am teaching a War and Film class for the first time.  We have arrived at the 80’s and the representation of the Vietnam War.  There were two main war film cycles in the 80’s, on one path lay the “realism” films of Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger HIll, and Born […]

By - Gareth Jones For fans of strange science fiction, Croatian/Eastern European cinema, weddings from Hell One of our favorite things on Sleep In Cinema (the weekly radio show I co-host with Craig Ceravolo on Substrate Radio) is when we ask our guests what they have been watching lately.  This was especially true when we had one of our favorite duos on the show, Greg Lowry and Bert Lipscomb to […]

By - Nick Adrian For fans of musicals, bright cinematography, and the French New Wave By the early 1960s, the movie musical had started to run its course. Gone were the days of MGM’s elaborate Busby Berkley productions and Warner Brother’s Technicolor fantasies - what was once arguably one of cinema’s most popular genres was slowly dwindling. However, in France a group of young filmmakers were making “waves” over their […]

By - Nick Adrian For fans of French cinema, fine cuisine, and Juliette Binoche. Rarely do you see a film that is a pleasure to more than just the two usual senses associated with the medium: sight and sound. But Trần Anh Hùng’s French-language film The Taste of Things graces the cinematic palate like a fine four-course meal. If cinema can be art where every frame is a painting, Hùng’s […]

By - Gareth Jones For fans of low budget zombie movies, late 70’s horror with a bit of art, innovative minimal scores, Peter Cushing and John Carradine cameos A few Sundays ago, I was lucky enough to be perusing one of my favorite places on Earth, Seasick Records.  I went in just to relax, say hello to friends, with no intention of buying anything.  I thought, why not just flip […]

By - Gareth Jones For fans of David Fincher, Michael Fassbinder, slow-burn action, philosophical antiheroes David Fincher signed a deal with Netflix in 2020 for four years and has now renewed it for three more years. Both parties must be happy with the agreement.  From this contract, Fincher has released the feature films Mank and now The Killer.  He has also directed an episode of Love, Death, and Robots as […]

By - Gareth Jones For fans of Jonathan Glazer, thought-provoking films, history films that resonate with today’s world Jonathan Glazer has made four feature films in 24 years. His work as a music and commercial director is exemplary and influential. Early in his career, he made a music video for the band Unkle called “Rabbit in Your Headlights” which shows the amazing French actor Denis Levant as a destitute man […]