Samuel Fuller’s The Baron of Arizona is an exaggerated tale “based on the true events” from the life of James Reavis (Vincent Price), a real estate clerk turned swindler who forged a property claim on a vast swath of land across Arizona and western New Mexico in the 1870s. Despite this premise rife with...
Shootin’ Range: Party Monster
SHOOTIN’ RANGE, a new column from Joshua Fu, takes on one ‘outlier’ film in an actor’s oeuvre and examines how it might or might not exhibit a performance outside their wheelhouse. “When was the last time you’d heard of a pea changing its pod?” – Seth Green (as James St. James) Following the tepid...
STRAIGHT SHOTS: Chicken and Egg
NIGHTCRAWLER is the heartwarming story of a small businessman triumphing over adversity and making his dreams come true. If it took place in the real world, STAR WARS: THE PHANTOM MENACE would basically be about a really cute, precocious 8-year-old Hitler. Oliver Stone’s NIXON showcases not only the birth of one of the most polarizing...