DOC (1971, Dir. Frank Perry, US)
The legend of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holiday is inexhaustible, having given birth to numerous cinematic incantations, which have all in their own way brought something distinctive to the Western…
Tag: Genre Cinema
HIGH-RISE (Dir. Ben Wheatley, 2015, UK)
Class devours itself. And the politics of class creates an indescribable antagonism that often spills over into violence, and in the case of Ben Wheatley’s High-Rise, class is explicated through…
COBRA (Dir. George P. Cosmatos, 1986, US) – Genre slippages
Growing up, Cobra was one of those cinematic anomalies in the career of mainstream Hollywood action star Sylvester Stallone, a blip that was drowned out by the summer of 1986…
RA. ONE (Dir. Anubhav Sinha, 2011, India)
The first rule of stardom – never believe your own hype. Not unless you are SRK who has not been making the best career choices of late. When was the…
