Monthly Archives: February 2012

One almost expects a sausage pizza pie to randomly arrive in Kiss Me Deadly.  Frankly, this film desires to be stereotypical soft-core pornography.  Instead of bad acting and pseudo sex Kiss Me Deadly employs bad acting and phony violence.  It … Continue reading →

Carol Reed’s 1949 film, The Third Man, is laden with unnerving commentary on post-WWII international tensions.  Before even watching the film, one already has expectations for xenophobic calamity given the nature of the story – an English director, Reed, with … Continue reading →

Alfred Hitchcock’s prescient 1943 film, Shadow of a Doubt, uses iconographic and dialogical cues to capture nihilistic notions of urban life and capitalism’s penchant for social decay echoed by historians like Lewis Mumford.  In 1961, Mumford wrote, “…it is plain … Continue reading →