Released: 1945 Dir. Edgar G. Ulmer Detour is film noir stripped of all the usual studio polish, leaving bare the rotting surface of a ladder leading to a nightmarish decent into hell. And what a decent it is. Made by poverty row studio PRC in 1945, Detour is a fine example of what a small studio could do with a meager budget and produce what is now considered essential film noir viewing. Poverty row Hollywood was hardly taken…
Released: 1932 Directed By: Mervyn LeRoy Mentioning movies like I Was a Teenage Werewolf, or I Married a Communist, or I Was a Brooklyn Gorilla for the FBI, usually evokes a smile, or a laugh, or both. And while working at a video store for 15 years the same could be said whenever I recommended I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang. However, you cannot judge this film solely by its title, Chain Gang is a serious and powerful…
Released: 1973 Dir. George Lucas After spending years going to the cinema to see, The Jungle Book, The Love Bug, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory(twice!), Bedknobs and Broomsticks, there comes a time in a young person’s life to start seeing ‘grown up’ movies. On my 10th birthday that dream became a reality, and I was scared. Seeing a grown-up movie meant subjecting yourself to a whole new demographic of audience member, and in 1974 that included…hippies. By…
