Dead Alive
The Citizen Kane of Oedipal zombie-cannibal-right to death-comedy-love stories. In this early film, Jackson takes the shopworn flesh-eating zombie genre by its rotting horns, adds a dash of Monty Python, and comes up with a film so gleefully over-the-top that it’s decidedly hard not to gag while you’re laughing yourself incontinent.
Benny & Joon
Naïf meets waif in this touching yet whimsically unrealistic tale of love amongst society’s write-offs.
Just Another Girl On the I.R.T.
Just Another Girl On the I.R.T. 1992, R, 92 min. Directed by Leslie Harris, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Ariyan Johnson, Kevin Thigpen, Ebony Jerido, Chequita Jackson. It’s safe to say that you haven’t seen many characters like Chantel (Johnson) in the movies before — an African-American teenage girl who dreams of becoming…
Ladro Di Bambini (Stolen Children), Il
Ladro Di Bambini (Stolen Children), Il 1992, NR, 114 min. Directed by Gianni Amelio, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Enrico Lo Verso, Valentina Scalici, Giuseppe Ieracitano. Set in and around Milan, Italy, Il Ladro de Bambini follows the journey of a young, idealistic army officer (Verso) and the two young children he is…
