A Lizard In a Woman’s Skin (the title comes from a throwaway line delivered by, you guessed it, a drugged-out hippie) is an authentic 1970s giallo, full of lurid imagery and an insolent refusal to have any point beyond base titillation.
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The Legend of the Stardust Brothers feels universal. More than brothers, they are the heroes with a thousand faces: the rock band: the movie.
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Sitting through Ben and Arthur at a Weird Wednesday screening is its own category of transformative.
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Michael sounds like a Michael Jackson fan’s dream while Man In The Mirror sounds like an incredibly lacking, unintentionally funny ode to the King of Pop, and maybe both of those things are true, but Man In The Mirror has something that Michael definitely lacked: the courage to explore its hero, warts and all.
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I’m not sure about Penny Slot, but I’m pretty sure that Showgirls 2 is a gift from heaven. Doubly so for the woman who created it.
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‘I’m here, I’m Homoti, get used to it.’
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Vampyros Lesbos is an experience where logic and reality are afterthoughts, a truly dreamlike film that exists as a delivery method for beautiful women doing strange and exciting things around some lavishly-designed contemporary decor while one of the grooviest psychedelic scores of all time takes things to another dimension.
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In the middle of February, when movie theaters around the country screen both classic Valentine’s Day films and off-the-beaten-path romantic repertory programming, Weird Wednesday at Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar presented director Sammo Hung’s rom-com action film Pedicab Driver.
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Verhoeven trusts us to take in an onslaught of religious parallels and florid symbolism and come to our own conclusions on what it all means—if anything.
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Movies are often described as having dream logic or otherwise being dreamlike, and this truly feels like a dream.
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Eve of Destruction feels like a literal blast from a video store past. Part 90s action flick, part cautionary tale of the near future, it’s also a lean melodrama with just enough complexity to withstand its 90-minute run time.
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Footmen is a Baptist propaganda movie about a Communist takeover of the US in the late '60s. It’s normally the kind of thing that sits in a church basement for years before finally dissolving from vinegar syndrome.
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Paul Michael Glaser’s The Running Man bottles up all the absurdity lovingly found in any great ‘80s action flick, but uncorking it almost 40 years later proves that some of the absurdity has matured into a shockingly accurate dystopian satire.
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If this is your first Gamera, Super Monster is as satisfying as any other entry point you could choose.
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In School of The Holy Beast, director Norifumi Suzuki and the Toei film studio bring a nunsploitation that challenges the audience through the shocking nature of its story juxtaposed with its beautiful imagery.
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Ted Post's The Baby (1973) tells the story of a woman stricken with grief, looking to help an underdeveloped adult man trapped within the warped remains of a nuclear family.
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Joe Dante’s homoerotic sci-fi comedy Innerspace, captured through its most crazy-ass brain-searing images.
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