Posted by Mike Finnegan on Jan 20th 2019
His voice was distinctive, direct, dramatic when needed – and always, an invitation to pay attention for something worthwhile. Thankfully, behind it was an unfailingly alert and engaged mind fixed on
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Posted by Mike Finnegan on Aug 14th 2018
Filmmaking of a soulful, personal and powerful kind is rare: a current example is director/co-writer Spike Lee’s BlackkKlansman, which combines deft storytelling and period/modern-day commentary
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Posted by Mike Finnegan on Feb 21st 2017
Today would have marked the 92nd birthday of the great Sam Peckinpah (1925-1984) and 20 years ago at this time, in an occurrence that would prove not only rare but indeed singular, a short film cre
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Posted by Mike Finnegan on Dec 16th 2016
Opening in New York 41 years ago tomorrow, director Sam Peckinpah’s The Killer Elite (1975) – prescient in its themes of moral corruption and malevolent unlawful activity in high places during that
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Posted by Mike Finnegan on Sep 9th 2015
Vampires have been done to death on the screen, even as late as 1997, when action-horrormeister John Carpenter turned his attention to the realm of the undead. Unlike today’s metrosexual, dreamily h
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