Review by Trylon Political Conspiracies Director Aaron Vehling The most paranoid man in America in the 1970s — well, at least the most powerful paranoid man at the time — was President Richard Nixon, whose own unbridled fear and anxiety led to him to tape most conversations in the White House… Continue reading
Review by Trylon volunteer Caty Rent How To Marry A Millionaire is a light but lively romantic comedy from 1953, also the first comedy to be shot in CinemaScope. The cast packs a punch with Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe, and Lauren Bacall all starring together in glorious Technicolor. Grable landed… Continue reading
It’s another in our Masterpieces of Paranoia series! De Palma, master of the homage, borrows from Blow-Up and The Conversation and goes totally de Palma on them, creating a movie of tremendous style and insight into filmmaking. Sound engineer John Travolta accidentally records evidence of a murder, but is… Continue reading
Howard Hawks’ The Big Sleep is on the shortlist of essential noirs: it’s fast-paced, cynical and razor-sharp, with a very young Lauren Bacall playing Vivian Rutledge, whose half-sister Carmen (Martha Vickers) has fallen in with a den of pornographers. Humphrey Bogart plays Raymond Chandler’s world-weary private eye Philip Marlowe. As… Continue reading
All white-knuckle paranoia and crisply-photographed Cold War flop sweat, John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate jangles nerves by diving into the heart of mid-century America’s deepest fears. Chinese operatives capture an American patrol that’s been lured off the beaten track during the Korean War. The soldiers are brainwashed, provided with… Continue reading
Review by Trylon resident beatnik Dave Gomshay Many editions of William S. Burroughs’ books come emblazoned with Norman Mailer’s oft-quoted declaration of the iconic writer’s genius, but it is model and future Once Bitten actress Lauren Hutton who gets to sing us his praises at the very beginning… Continue reading
Review by Andrea Matthews Clark “Paramount’s SCHOCKING, SUSPENSE-FILLED MASTERPIECE OF LOVE…AND MURDER.” This was how Double Indemnity was billed when it was released in 1944. The tagline: “You can’t kiss away a Murder!” Immediately we know we’re in for some pulpy fiction fun – a film noir journey that… Continue reading
Review by Trylon master swordsman Pat Vehling Spanning a staggering 26 films and 100 television episodes over the course of 27 years, the persona of Zatoichi is one of the most prolific characters on screen in film and television industries in post-war Japan – the only legacy that can… Continue reading
We’re in the depths of a brutal Minnesota winter, so it might seem weird to go see a movie about a failed expedition to the South Pole. But Ernest Shackleton’s perilous 1914 journey was an adventure the likes of which we can only imagine today. And the feature… Continue reading
Notorious but lovable schockmeister William Castle teams up with a fading Joan Crawford in this dumb, crude but quite entertaining melodrama. Lucy Harbin (Crawford) finds her husband in bed with a another woman. Grabbing an axe, she dispatches them both in a grisly fashion, without realizing that her young daughter… Continue reading
