Serious White People — directed by Ben Affleck; starring Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, Rebecca Hall, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Chris Cooper Hollywood, that hallowed caterer to the cultural needs of the moment, is open for business. Please bring your prescriptions forward. Is your America mired in the post-Vietnam doldrums — wishing we’d kicked a…

We Can Work It Out — directed by Sam Peckinpah; starring Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Al Lettieri, Sally Struthers To witness Steve McQueen in his prime, kicking ass like it’s personal — and God help you if it ever was — is to experience nothing less than the action-movie equivalent of Monica Bellucci’s tits…

(My original review of Straw Dogs can be found here.) I’ve wandered high and I’ve wandered low. Sailed over peaks and scraped valleys. Consulted both oracles and fools. And yet, closure eludes me. Something still eats away at my soul, gnaws away at my very being even as I type…

I Am Just a Monkey Man and I’m Glad You Are a Monkey Woman, Too, Babe — directed by Sam Peckinpah; starring Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna Unruly child that it was, the New Hollywood movement of the late-Vietnam-to-Watergate era thought it could spend eternity tear-assing through the lobby of staid Mainstream Cinema, overturning plants and setting off cherry bombs without so much as…

No One Here Gets Out Alive — directed by Sam Peckinpah; starring Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Robert Webber, Gig Young, Helmut Dantine After being screwed in the ass by various producers and powers-that-were for thirteen-odd years, Sam Peckinpah simply made lubing up a part of his morning routine. So along comes producer Martin Baum, with the backing…