|Luke Mosher| This summer, one of Trylon’s flagship series is a collection of revenge movies called A Dish Best Served Cold. No series on revenge would be complete without a film from Park Chan-wook’s Vengeance Trilogy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003)… Continue reading
|Finn Odum| (A Series of Facts and Asides Written in Remembrance of Brandon Lee). “EDITOR’S” NOTE: We’ve received reports that this essay was hacked in an attempt to blaspheme the opinions of our very own “Fanged Finn” Odum. We at Movie Review Website… Continue reading
|Kevin Maher| Warning! Spoilers below. Proceed at your own risk. Sam Fuller—I would be hard pressed to identify another filmmaker whose oeuvre represents not only their worldview, but their entire personality to the same extent. The iconic, if not tragically overlooked… Continue reading
| Dan Howard | Quentin Tarantino makes his despise for Hitler and the Nazi party well-known. The vast majority would agree. Over the last nearly 15 years, Tarantino made his own kind of historical revisionist cinema with Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Continue reading
|Matt Clark| A professional thief left for dead after a job gone sour pursues the people who betrayed him and extracts his payback, no matter the collateral damage. It’s a classic hardboiled scenario and one that practically exploded from the pages of The Hunter, the first of 24… Continue reading
|Kevin Maher| John Boorman’s 1967 fever dream Point Blank has often been cited as the catalyst for the neo-noir movement that has ebbed and flowed for more than 50 years. Adapted from the Donald E. Westlake (writing as Richard Stark) novel called The Hunter… Continue reading
|Matthew Tchepikova-Treon| The year: Meiji 7 (1874). Inside a Tokyo prison during a snowstorm, we hear sharp winds, a dying woman’s anguished howling, and the cries of a newborn baby girl: Yuki. Outside, through a wood-barred window, white snow falls… Continue reading
|Rowan Smith| Despite my strong desire to fight against the impulse throughout my teens and twenties, I’ve always been governed more by emotion than logic. I cannot deny that I become bloodthirsty when I am wronged, despite the god knows how many revenge-centric films… Continue reading
