Holy Mountain Bizarre, absurdist, surreal avant garde cinema is a form of filmmaking that is truly and only for the most artistically brave, perhaps because it runs the greatest risk when standing up to audience scrutiny (and dismissal) than the more run of the mill mainstream movies out there. Arguably first pioneered by Luis Bunuel […]
Hondo There are many who marvel at the legend of John Wayne, a guy who was always 100% right on the money and gave a great performance whenever he played John Wayne. Sometimes, when the Wayne persona was put into a film which was exceptionally well written and directed (The Searchers), the results were incredible. […]
Horse Feathers With their fourth film on their march to cinematic immortality, The Marx Brothers were not only hitting their stride, but were now fully settled into their screen personas that they effortlessly could bring out whenever they were in front of a camera. Groucho and Harpo were already pretty well established with Groucho’s wisecracking […]
Hot Fuzz This 2007 film by the same crew that brought us Shaun Of The Dead is a worthy follow-up even if it doesn’t feature the comedic high points of the earlier release. This time, we get a send-up of high-octane action films encapsulated within a perfectly subversive storyline. Simon Pegg plays a highly decorated […]
House Of 1000 Corpses Taken as an obvious homage to Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Rob Zombie’s first directing effort can almost be looked at as an artsy-fartsy European style take on the material, with its bright colors, disorienting narrative style, and intricate set design. However, where Hooper’s approach as a filmmaker was from a […]
House Of Whipcord The women-in-prison genre, while not the most reputable, has always had the potential for a fun, exploitative good time. In this film from British director Pete Walker, we get perhaps the most BORING example of what the genre has to offer, with minimum nudity, no substantial Ilsa-style torture scenes, and not even […]
House On The Edge Of The Park In 1973, Wes Craven made a stunning debut with his Last House On The Left, a crudely shot, poorly made film that nonetheless succeeded (to a point) of portraying Craven’s stated goal of showing real life horror and violence as unleashed by everyday human beings on each other […]
Howling This 1981 werewolf horror movie (released around the same time as the masterpiece An American Werewolf In London) certainly floats around some ideas that are quite potent (the idea that lycanthropy can be the ultimate form of breaking away from all repression), but for the most part misses the mark with some blown opportunities […]
Hurricane Sometimes it can be hard to review a movie such as this 1999 release, a film that is acted and made well enough in the service of a basically dishonest, one-sided screenplay that has since been proven to be rife with factual inaccuracies about the real life story at hand. Denzel Washington stars as […]
Hurt Locker I remember when the art of the War Movie was to make an oblique masterpiece where War itself was really a metaphor for the human condition, which resulted in such works as Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. Then, starting with Ridley Scott’s Black Hawk Down, the idea was to take the genre […]