Clever-enough indie horror that rather smartly plays out its feminist revenge sequence for the instigative and graphic rape of a New York novelist earlier in the film. Sylvan siren Jennifer Hills leaves New York for a summer of productive tranquility in a rented riverfront cabin on the Housatonic near bucolic Kent, Connecticut, where she's planning to write her novel. The town's loafing bad boys, who feel provoked in their repulsive behavior by a city woman who dares to show her…

I've waited a long time to see this strangely beautiful little film again that I first saw on some late show in the 1970s. It captures the shattered innocence of 12-year-old George (a stunning Edward Albert in first role), a runaway lighting out for a life of exploration and purpose from his abusive foster parents’ home, when he meets a Dirty Jim Jelliman, a grizzled old man (played superbly by Henry Hull), who takes him in for a bit, bestowing…

Gene Hackman reunited with director Arthur Penn for this airtight 1975 LA neo-noir that finds him playing a scrappy private detective and former NFL player, called Harry Moseby, who's been down on his luck of late when he's hired by a hedonistic former B-movie actress and divorcée to find her runaway daughter, a teenage nymphet, played by Melanie Griffith in her first screen credit. Harry locates her in the Florida Keys, where she's moved in with her ex-stepfather and his…

A rather underrated and compelling character study of upper-middle class malaise from 1970, Loving is set in New York and Westport, Connecticut (home to that Cheeveresque suburban commuter set who work in New York and play too: “Let’s have lunch” being code for a midday screw, back when the city was chock-a-block with appealingly respectable hotels suited to that brand of dalliance. George Segal, finely understated here, with a balance of humor and pathos that makes his character — a…