Author: Marko

Herbert J. Biberman’s Salt of the Earth (1954) is a legendary, blacklisted neo-realist masterpiece depicting a strike by Mexican-American miners where the women take over the picket line, sparking a radical social and domestic revolution.

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Christy Cabanne’s Conspiracy (1930) is a gritty pre-Code crime melodrama starring Bessie Love and Ned Sparks, following a desperate woman on the run after killing a drug kingpin who finds refuge with a bumbling, cynical mystery writer.

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Dudley Murphy’s The Emperor Jones (1933) is a historic, haunting drama starring Paul Robeson as an escaped convict who crowns himself king of a Caribbean island, only to face a terrifying psychological descent in the jungle.

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William Marshall’s The Phantom Planet (1961) is a deliciously campy retro sci-fi B-movie about an astronaut shrunk to six inches tall on a mysterious asteroid, forced to fight rubber rock-monsters and navigate miniature alien politics.

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Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street (1945) is a devastating, bleak masterpiece of film noir, capturing the agonizing psychological downfall of a meek clerk who loses his mind, his morality, and his soul to a cruel femme fatale.

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Paul Leni’s 1928 silent masterpiece is a devastating, expressionistic blend of gothic horror and melodrama, telling the tragic story of a man cursed with a permanent, surgically carved grin who must navigate a world far more monstrous than his disfigurement.

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This is your life, and it’s a mechanical labyrinth built out of giant typewriter keys and someone else’s delusion. The SetupTwo men. One endless, claustrophobic machine. An infinite web of…

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How to Dump Your Husband’s Body in a Lake, Gaslight Your Mother-in-Law, and Launch Francis Ford Coppola’s Career on a Twenty-Grand Budget It’s 3:15 AM. My eyes feel like they’ve…

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