May 25, 2016
In 1968, France's Jacques Tati had become an international film sensation in large part to his famous character Monsiour Hulot, a bumbling Parisian whose escapades had made the world laugh. Wanting to branch out along with expressing a serious concern of the modernization of Paris, Tati spent several years and millions...
May 18, 2016
In 2015, critics hailed an independent film shot entirely with an iPhone called Tangerine about a recently paroled trans woman in pursuit of her philandering boyfriend and his girlfriend over the course of Christmas Eve. But does the film live up to the critical acclaim or a descent to a pit of despair? Moviedude Eric,...
May 13, 2016
In 1982, Director Ridley Scott, fresh off the success of Alien, chose a film adaptation of Phillip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" to create a cyberpunk film noir called Blade Runner starring newly minted megastar Harrison Ford. The troubled production was initially praised for it's visual flair...
May 4, 2016
In 1957, Swedish Filmmaker released The Seventh Seal into international theaters and became an instant icon of European cinema. The film about a knight and his squire traversing a Black Plague-riddled Sweden while playing a fate-deciding game of chess created countless knockoff and would provide some of...