Netflix 911! The Moon In the Gutter: Jean-Jacques Beineix (1983)
The Moon in the Gutter (La Lune dans le Caniveau) – 1983 Jamie Carruthers urges you to take another look at Jean Jacques Beineix’s precursor to cult favourite Betty Blue, in the first of an ongoing...
View ArticleS&Man (Sandman) – 2006
In part two of his Netflix 911 series, Jamie Carruthers looks at J.T. Petty’s macabre documentary on voyeurism and its relationship with the horror genre. Soft for Digging director J.T. Petty explores...
View ArticleThe Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009)
This week’s Netflix 911 sees Jamie Carruthers takes a look at how the oft-overlooked sequel to 2004 time travel thriller The Butterfly Effect cleverly assembles a fresh narrative from old building...
View ArticleLadies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains
In this week’s Netflix 911, Jamie examines the punk satire, Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains, that saw Oscar winning screenwriter Nancy Dowd team up with 60’s pop impresario (and director of...
View ArticlePopatopolis (2009)
Jamie Carruthers looks at the demise of the B movie as we know it; as depicted in Popatopolis, Clay Westervelt’s documentary about cult movie maestro Jim Wynorski. Clay Westervelt follows Corman...
View ArticleBlack Moon Rising (1986)
Jamie takes a spin in Black Moon Rising, an auto-action flick from the mind of John Carpenter. Tommy Lee Jones stars as a career thief hired by The Government to steal a cassette filled with precious...
View ArticleStrange Days (1995)
In Netflix 911, Jamie presents a look at the criminally under-appreciated cyberpunk distopia of Strange Days, Kathryn Bigelow’s collaboration with former husband James Cameron. Long before The Academy...
View ArticleVampire’s Kiss (1988)
Jamie Carruthers continues his series of Netflix recommendations with Vampire’s Kiss; a truly unique film about the dark side of yuppie-ism that features some of the very best in Nic Cage mania....
View ArticleBrain Smasher: A Love Story (Andrew Dice Clay – 1993)
Schlocky action director Albert Pyun teams up with potty-mouthed stand up Andrew Dice Clay to fill the martial-arts-based-culture-clash shaped hole left in the wake of Big Trouble in Little China. When...
View ArticleClass of 1999 (1990)
Mark Lester’s Class of 1999 returns to the troubled school system that earned him some of his highest accolades, wherein he crafts another explosive satire to very different results. Following his...
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