blog of the vortex

Fairly successful noir thriller as the protagonist chain smokes her way through a gauntlet of problems. The great James Mason takes the fal...

Trying to be the 2001 of 1950, this earnest space procedural is light on actual physics but was influential in many respects. Well produced...

It's a top of the line production and its pedigree is impeccable but nearly everbody is miscast. Genteel spy spoof never really takes of...

Anderson 's best film, made before he abandoned the idea of portraying human beings and switched to moving dioramas.

Completely forgettable. At least it is lit well. Ms. Blunt steals the picture and I realize that may be damning with faint praise.

Despite being a "work for hire" this is unmistakably a David Lynch picture. Superb cast, the great Freddie Francis manning the c...

If you can forget the misguided ending this is a successful rendering of the play in late 1930's Hollywood style. Would have been a clas...

Chalmers claims that experience cannot be accounted for by science. But scientific understanding is not extraneous to experience; it is enti...