Articles by Felix Gonzalez, Jr.
Frontier(s)
Well, the French have certainly given American filmmakers a run for their money in the torture-porn genre during the last few years. First Alexandre Aja created a hotly debated gore fest with "High Tension" in 2003, and now Xavier Gens serves up [...]
She Done Him Wrong
In pre-code 1930s Hollywood, before the Hays Office and the Catholic Church began enforcing a system of self-censorship on Hollywood films, sex was a frequent ingredient in popular movies. And nobody brought sex to the movies like Mae West. A vaudevillian [...]
101 Dalmatians: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
Having not seen Walt Disney's "101 Dalmatians" since I was probably about eight years old, I was anxious to see how it has held up after all these years in Buena Vista's latest Platinum Edition DVD. To my delight, not only has it held [...]
The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue: 2-Disc Special Edition
. . . or "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Live Without My Motorcycle." That's right, Spanish director Jorge Grau's 1974 homage-cum-sequel to George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" works not only as an allegorical [...]
Love in the Time of Cholera
Mike Newell's "Love in the Time of Cholera" is an adaptation of critically acclaimed novelist Gabriel García Márquez's 1985 novel about a decades' long romantic obsession. The story begins in Cartagena, Colombia in 1879, [...]
Beowulf: Director's Cut
All right, kids. This ain't your grandpa's "Beowulf." Most everyone is familiar with the epic, Old English poem, if for no other reason than that it was required reading in their high school English class. While the poem has become [...]
Gone Baby Gone
Ben Affleck's "Gone Baby Gone" is one of the most unexpected directorial debuts of 2007. Having persevered through an acting career that has had its share of success and, more recently, failure, Affleck has hit back with a vengeance with [...]