Classic Reviews: One From the Vaults ‘No Way to Treat a Lady’ (1968)
Jack Smight’s movie adaptation of William (Butch Cassidy) Goldman’s blackly comic serial killer novel No Way to Treat a Lady is quirky fun, and is…
Tag: Rod Steiger
They’re Not Tattoos, They’re Skin Illustrations! The Illustrated Man (1969)
The Illustrated Man is a 1969 American science fiction film directed by Jack Smight and starring Rod Steiger as a man whose tattoos on…
Duck You Sucker! Sergio Leone’s Final & Perhaps Greatest Western
John H. Mallory (James Coburn): Well, the reality of that is… you just liberated a hundred and fifty patriots through sheer courage in the face…
Dictator Hagiographies: Air-Brushed Totalitarianism On-Screen
Armando Iannucci’s comedy Death of Stalin (2017) depicted a farcical version of the final days of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili…
Watch: Shock Value & Clever Novelty in Films Has a Finite Shelf-Life
There’s a passel of movies that were apparently ‘out there’ in terms of concept but are nowadays more ‘so what?’ One big reveal in the…