Much like The 400 Blows which followed a young misfit coping with society, coming to terms with the outside world that doesn’t understand it, and the post-war milieu of it all, 1961’s A Taste of Honey follows a similar story of fledgling yearning, misunderstanding,...
Kyle’s Criterion Corner: Fantastic Planet (1973)
And what a fantastic planet it was. Renè Laloux’s 1973’s Fantastic Planet (or Wild Planet depending on how literal you like your translations) is a positively surreal. Winning the 1973 Cannes Grand Prix Prize, the film is imaginative, engrossing, and original in the...
Whitey: The United States of America V. James J. Bulger: Documentary reveals raw truth of alliance between the Boston gangster and FBI
For months, the trailers for Scott Cooper’s latest movie Black Mass has been featured prominently during commercial breaks. They do a pretty excellent job of depicting the internsity of the film and exactly how a sinister gangster like Whitey could have possibly...
Kyle’s Criterion Corner: Night and The City (1950)
Based on a 1938 Gerald Kersh novel of the same name, Night and the City certainly lives up to its archetypical sounding noir title, but is quite atypical in its pessimistic identity and unusual plotti Based on a 1938 Gerald Kersh novel of the same name, Night and the...
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