What we have here with X is a good, old-fashioned slice-’em-up homage to 1970s grindhouse flicks. Specifically, 1979, wherein we find Maxine (Mia Goth), she of the constellation of a birthmark over one eye, determined to escape the drab life of a stripper in the even drabber boondocks of Texas. Thanks to her boyfriend Wayne… Read More »
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John Sayles: The Artist in Troubled Times
Full disclosure, my father, Brandon Chase, hired John Sayles many years ago to write a fun and very popular monster film, ALLIGATOR. It’s probably why Sayles used that film to illustrate a point during our phone conversation on May 18, 2017. The occasion for this, my fourth interview with him, was the Mammoth Lakes Film… Read More »