9+ hour, 21+ min ago   (468+ words) The Lost World: Jurassic Park, a 1997 science-fiction adventure directed by Steven Spielberg, written by David Koepp (based on Michael Crichton’s novel The Lost World), and starring Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard, Richard Attenborough, Vince Vaughn, Vanessa Lee…...

21+ hour, 28+ min ago   (1036+ words) Midwest Film Journal On Criterion: Harlan County, USA & American Dream Filmmaker Barbara Kopple’s documentary about the 1973 Brookside miners’ strike, Harlan County, USA is an unmatched look at the context and complexities of the waning days of America’s mid-20th century labor…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago   (995+ words) Happy Valley: Don’t Say Good Luck Midwest Film Journal Lasciate ogne speranza, voi chi’intrate.How did it come to this? At the height of his power in Hollywood in 1999, Adam Sandler founded his own production company as a way to…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (625+ words) Midwest Film Journal One unintentionally amusing delight of many Jean-Claude van Damme films is how they explain away his accent. The most hilarious might be 1990’s Death Warrant, in which JCVD’s Louis Burke is an undercover cop with the Royal…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (637+ words) Midwest Film Journal There’s a certain point in Martin Scorsese’s 1977 New York, New York where it could be written off as a modestly enjoyable curiosity of amplified artifice, the occasional indelible image and a more danceable dissolution of decorum per…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1347+ words) Midwest Film Journal Class Of 1996: Trainspotting: Thirty Years Later, Choosing Life Is Harder Than Ever This month, Nick Rogers is handing Class of … duties over to special guest author Jim Hunter. As such, Nick’s usual rules do not apply … beyond…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (626+ words) Midwest Film Journal The Samurai and the Prisoner Apart from no familial connection, there has heretofore been no narrative overlap between the works of Akira Kurosawa and of Kiyoshi Kurosawa — the contemporary Japanese filmmaker behind Cure, Pulse and Cloud who…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (451+ words) Midwest Film Journal Kino Lorber: King Creole 4K If William Inge were asked to write a musical drama for Elvis Presley, it might resemble 1958’s King Creole — itself very loosely adapted from a Harold Robbins novel about a young Jewish man…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (943+ words) Midwest Film Journal Following up 1988’s Bloodsport, 1989’s Kickboxer and 1990’s Death Warrant, Jean-Claude van Damme used 1991’s Lionheart to add a new move to his repertoire of spin kicks to faces and fist jabs to balls — an uppercut of…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (825+ words) Midwest Film Journal Soylent Green’s climactic twist is so commonly known that a real-life meal replacement product cheekily adopted part of its name. All the better to stoke morbid curiosity about what’s really inside, right? Despite its conclusion becoming a…...