Dec 29, 2022
What better way to end the year than a double feature of end-of-the-world classics? First up we have Stanley Kubrick's apocalyptic comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, starring the incredible Peter Sellers as three of his greatest characters, and George C. Scott in...
Dec 15, 2022
It's sort of amazing that Martini Giant has been going for years without covering one of the great film artists of the 20th century - Alfred Hitchcock - so we intend to make up for it by starting a new tradition with our first annual Hitch for the Holidays! Tonight we take on two of the master's finest collaborations...
Dec 1, 2022
With a career as long, varied, and impressive as Denzel Washington's, it's almost inevitable that some great pictures are going to slip through the cracks of film history, so MG wants to shine a spotlight on two of the actor's most interesting, most forgotten films! First up, he's cool as hell in 1989's The Mighty...
Nov 17, 2022
Since the 2010's, smart, slow-burn horror films have come steadily back into the spotlight, to the point where A24 has created a cottage industry for itself with arthouse-friendly hits like Midsommar, The Witch, and Saint Maud. But in reviewing Polanski's late-60's classic, MG feels there's still nothing like Mia Farrow...
Nov 4, 2022
With The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and Killing Them Softly, it could be said that director Andrew Dominik specialized in making box-office bombs that were only later discovered to be works of genius. According to Netflix's numbers however, he broke that trend with his next film,...