Articles by Alan Jones
I Spit On Your Grave / I Spit On Your Grave [Blu-Ray]
Meir Zarch; directed by Steven R. Monroe
PUBLISHED Jul 26, 2012
A young woman (Camille Keaton) goes to a summer cabin on a remote lake to write a novel; she is assaulted by four men, who beat her up befo...
The Three Stooges [Blu-Ray]
Peter and Bobby Farrelly
PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2012
"We didn't want to do a version of the Stooges," co-director Peter Farrelly explains in one of the making-of featurettes on the Three Stoog...
Tough Enough
Richard Fleischer
PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2012
Tough Enough (a post-Rocky boxing flick from 1983) opens with scene that could make be a short film on its own. First, we see a woman in a...
Vanishing Point
Charles Robert Carner
PUBLISHED Jul 12, 2012
Richard C. Sarafian's 1971 Vanishing Point is the genre film that could only have been made in the wake of the American counter-culture of...
U.S. Marshals
Stuart Baird
PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2012
One gets a feeling of Déjà vu while watching U.S. Marshals, a spin-off of The Fugitive, the better-known Harrison Ford vehicle. Both films...
Blood Work
Clint Eastwood
PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2012
Blood Work, a mostly forgotten thriller from 2002, is the last true genre film Clint Eastwood made before transitioning to Hollywood's elde...
Hondo [Blu-Ray]
John Farrow
PUBLISHED Jun 8, 2012
John Wayne plays Hondo Lane, a notoriously independent (and part-Apache) gunman who befriends a mother (Geraldine Page) and son (Lee Aaker)...
Where Do We Go Now?
Nadine Labaki
PUBLISHED May 25, 2012
Where Do We Go Now? may be a Lebanese film and it may concern itself with the type of contemporary religious conflicts often reserved for s...