Ms .45 - Abel Ferrara - stunning tale of revenge

(Credits: Far Out / Rochelle Films)‘Ms .45’: Abel Ferrara’s stunning tale of revenge Mon 29 January 2024 22:45, UKOne of the most widely debated genres in cinema history is easily rape and revenge. Many movies that fall into this category align closely with the horror or exploitation genres and, more often than not, are directed by men. Thus, much controversy surrounds these rape-revenge flicks, with many feminist scholars criticising specific films from the genre for featuring gratuitous, dr...

Gun Crazy

Gun Crazy is a precursor to Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and the sub-genre of ‘Couple on the Run’ films, which, like any film noir or neo-noir, is bound to end in tragedy. With impeccable editing that smoothly transitions across tense blocks of the screenplay, the movie establishes both a rapid-fire plot of thrills and finds time to reflect on the themes and psychology of its lead protagonists.Directed by Joseph H. Lewis and written by the HUAC blacklisted Dalton Trumbo (under a pseudonym), the sc...

Winchester ’73

Take Seven: Object Lessons The Myth Maker Justin Stewart on Winchester ’73 Firearms—and the violence they both enable and wreak—are as fundamental to American cinema as they are to the history of a land stolen and colonized at gunpoint and a nation whose independence (and later, union) was purchased with oceans of shed blood. When moral superintendents throughout American film history have seen fit to protect delicate sensitivities through censorship, government review, and ratings b...

Shotgun slugs are often

Source: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-point-of-having-shotgun-slugs-as-opposed-to-bullets Shotgun slugs are often completely pointless. No, really. See this? No point. It’s round. Ba-dum-tsch! Thank you, thank you. I’m here all week. In all seriousness, the purpose of shotgun slugs is to make big damn holes in things at ranges longer than where a bunch of smaller projectiles can be reasonably expected to stay clumped together to make a similar big damn hole. If you fire a load of ...