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Basic Instinct 1992
Spellbindingly lurid. The platonic form of the erotic thriller. Eszterhas and Paul Verhoeven: name a more iconic duo.
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The Manson Family 1997
*The following review was written in the summer of 2013*:
The notorious avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger once commented that he “always considered movies evil,” adding that “the day that cinema was invented was a black day for mankind.” Hyperbole aside, Anger’s assessment is undeniably prescient when one considers the staggering impact that the medium has had on the collective consciousness of Western civilization. Contemporary film not only allows us to experience volatile life and death scenarios in a manner that…
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Killing Zoe 1993
Roger Ebert famously described Killing Zoe as “Generation X’s first bank caper movie,” and indeed the Gen X sensibility does seep through every frame of this film. It really captures a moment in time when these sorts of bold, edgy, relatively low budget films were being churned out regularly by major studios, a sort of 90s new wave, with Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction being the apotheosis of this type.
It’s a shame that Killing Zoe remains relatively unknown as there…
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Bellflower 2011
Much has been said about the technical wizardry that went into the production of Bellflower, including a custom-built camera, flamethrower, and apocalyptic muscle car. The director describes himself as a “tinkerer,” and this proclivity clearly informs his filmmaking process, but though these various creations are quite impressive, the film is in no way reliant upon gimmickry. Bellflower tells the story of two best friends from the Midwest who move out to California and spend their days drinking and working on…
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