Articles by Bjorn Olson

Lethal Ladies Collection Vol. 2

PUBLISHED Jan 18, 2012

Roger Corman never wasted any time with purple prose and superfluous introductions when making his movies, so let's cut right to the chase....

Monsignor

Frank Perry

PUBLISHED Jan 13, 2012

Ooooh, that naughty Catholic Church, always getting into mischief! It seemed like not so long ago that the Catholic Church was all-seeing,...

Pariah

Dee Rees

PUBLISHED Jan 12, 2012

Coming-of-age tales are an irresistible temptation for new filmmakers. They provide an equal measure of verisimilitude and nostalgia, reach...

Sky Riders / The Last Hard Men

Douglas Hickox / Andrew V. McLagen

PUBLISHED Jan 5, 2012

James Coburn was one of the screen's finest actors, and one of the last of a dying breed of tough guys that simply don't exist anymore. His...

Pina

Wim Wenders

PUBLISHED Dec 22, 2011

Hot on the heels of Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Wim Wenders is the latest titan of world cinema (no, Michael Bay doesn't coun...

Little Deaths

Sean Hogan, Andrew Parkinson and Simon Rumley

PUBLISHED Dec 21, 2011

The horror genre is the perfect vehicle for the omnibus film, where short, sharp shocks can be more readily illustrated than sustained terr...

Dragonslayer

Tristan Patterson

PUBLISHED Dec 15, 2011

Unfortunately not the latest in a long string of documentaries about LARPing, Dragonslayer is instead a freeform documentary about skateboa...

For Christ's Sake

Jackson Douglas

PUBLISHED Dec 9, 2011

For Christ's Sake, an amiable, if threadbare low-budget comedy, hits two out of three subjects on the "do not engage" scale, tackling both...