Review: Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Posted on December 3, 2009December 27, 2009

On paper, Werner Herzog’s most recent dramatic movie is a cop’s story, told in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. In execution, it’s a loopy, mad ride, that starts off and rarely slows for you to catch up, comprehend or rationalize what you have just seen.

Remake This: Body Snatchers

Posted on August 16, 2009

Abel Ferrara took on Jack Finney’s horror/sci-fi classic of aliens out to get the human race with 1993’s “Body Snatchers.” While the story is effectively told and is a good tale, sadly it is inevitably compared to the two previous “Body Snatchers” movies which, for my money, are some of the best films of their …