The Cohen Case Files: Wicked Stepmother (1989)

Executive Produced, Written and Directed by Larry Cohen As I mentioned in my Movie Defender piece on Paul Schrader’s The Canyons, I have the tendency to go a little soft on the lesser films of directors I admire. When that director is someone who is also undervalued, as is the case with Larry Cohen, I […]

The Movie Defender: The Canyons (2013)

The plot sounds like warmed-over Bret Easton Ellis, except Ellis actually wrote it. That the director is Paul Schrader (American Gigolo, Affliction) is too sad to contemplate. – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone I think they’re trying to say something provocative about the emptiness of Hollywood and the desperation that fame-seeking breeds, something that’s been said […]