Roger Corman’s passing provided a good illustration of how and how not to remember an influential, widely beloved figure.
Read MoreThe Paul Schrader-directed 2016 Neo-Noir Dog Eat Dog, which pairs Nicolas Cage with Willem Dafoe, doesn’t have much of a reputation but I dug it.
Read MoreNicolas Cage re-teamed with Bringing Out the Dead screenwriter Paul Schrader for the muddled 2014 psychodrama The Dying of the Light, which sucks in a different way than most of Cage’s vehicles from this period, but it still sucks.
Read MoreMy patron-funded exploration of the films of David Bowie hits another major milestone with 1988’s The Last Temptation of Christ, which smartly casts the late pop icon as a cooly pragmatic Pontius Pilate opposite Willem Dafoe’s punishingly intense Jesus.
Read MoreMartin Scorsese, Paul Schrader and Nicolas Cage got together for 1999’s Bringing Out the Dead, a pitch-black paramedic comedy of sin and salvation that, in an unsurprising turn of events is very intense and pretty fucking terrific.
Read MoreThe mind behind Taxi Driver! The enfant terrible that gave us American Psycho! Lindsay Lohan and the “nice guy” of porn! Crowd-funding! It’s 2013’s disastrous The Canyons! What could possibly go wrong, other than everything?
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