Today we’re going to celebrate the career of one of the great makers of genre and B-movies, whose robust adventure films and harrowing sci-fi pictures paved the way for the second half of the 20th and 21st century. Case in point this marvel, the too-little-seen and even less discussed “The Power,” a proto-superhero movie with a black heart and the grammar of a noir potboiler in broad daylight, with echoes of cold war tension and atomic age devastation bouncing around its empty corridors and cold desert valleys.
Our series on underrated films gets to the unheralded The Power. Read More