Reframe: Natural Born Killers by David Phillips August 29, 2019 2 News Over the last quarter century, it's hard to think of a movie more polarizing than Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers.... Read more
Reframe: HEAT by David Phillips July 12, 2019 2 Reframe It’s easy to forget that Michael Mann’s classic crime film HEAT was a relatively modest success nearly a quarter century... Read more
Reframe: American Gigolo by David Phillips June 29, 2019 6 News American Gigolo holds a somewhat odd position in Paul Schrader's career. The first two films he directed, Bue Collar and... Read more
Reframe: Philadelphia by David Phillips and Ryan Adams August 27, 2019 5 News When director Jonathan Demme’s Philadelphia was released in 1993, it was a watershed moment. As the first big studio film... Read more
Reframe: Man On Fire by David Phillips November 9, 2018 7 featured The late Tony Scott had a reputation that was forever in the shadow of his brother Ridley. His older brother... Read more
Reframe: Purple Rain by David Phillips October 2, 2018 14 featured Purple Rain arrived in theatres on July 27, 1984. Prince was a well-known and controversial musician by then. He had... Read more
Reframe: Jackie Brown by David Phillips September 15, 2018 4 featured I may not make a lot of friends saying it, but Jackie Brown to me was the last time Tarantino... Read more
John Cazale: Five For Five by David Phillips August 29, 2018 9 featured I wish John Cazale had lived long enough to make a bad movie. Not only for his own sake, or... Read more
Robby Muller And The Scar Below Nastassja Kinski’s Left Eye by David Phillips July 4, 2018 8 featured To my considerable shame, it took the death of Robby Muller to make me realize just how many of my... Read more
Reframe: Out of Sight by David Phillips July 2, 2018 20 featured It might be hard to remember that when Out of Sight came out almost 20 years ago to the day... Read more
All There Is To Know About The Crying Game by David Phillips June 17, 2018 12 featured I was born in the very small town of Pikeville, Kentucky. At the age of 4 my mother took us... Read more
Reframe: And Justice For All by David Phillips May 13, 2018 8 Classics When ...And Justice For All was released October 19, 1979, it was reasonably well received by critics and moviegoers. Reviews... Read more
