Q is a great movie to scream through in a huge revival theatre on a Saturday afternoon, but it would still be a hoot to see at home on video with your friends. Michael Moriarty isn't the first actor to come to mind as Jimmy Quinn, former addict, current petty criminal, and musician wannabe, but he's terrific in the role. Larry Cohen's direction and screenplay are pretty terrif…
Queen Kelly is one of the great might-have-beens in movie history. Directed by the great Erich von Stroheim and starring the legendary Gloria Swanson, fresh from her Oscar-nominated triumph as Sadie Thompson, Queen Kelly promised to be yet another mouth-watering excursion into the world of the rich and decadent. It was. But Swanson, who was then in the midst of an affair with its married producer,…
Screenwriter-turned-actor Tony Spiridakis asks us to believe that the inhabitants of Queens are more real than anyone else and that no one in the neighborhood is full of crap. That, believe it or don't, is the payoff for Queens Logic, about five lifelong buddies who are still the most important people in each other's lives. This may very well represent new territory for its young wri…