“Viy” (1967) came to my attention by virtue of having been collected in a 15-disc compendium of folk horror films “All the Haunts be Ours”
Political conspiracy films were so common in the Seventies that some people were probably getting sick of them, but today they stand as a rich
“Bad Boys: Ride or Die” picks up soon after 2020’s legacy sequel “Bad Boys for Life,” but it doesn’t ride on that movie’s fumes. The
Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Paradine Case” (1947) is so nice looking and features such great performances that it almost overshadows the thin story by uber-producer David
The Oscars have talked about adding new categories to appeal to a wider demographic. If there was one that rewarded backroom office-politics navigation in order
“Twisters” recaptures that feeling of thrills from natural-disaster movies in the waning days of the flickering-projector, catch-it-in-the-dollar-theater era. We get pseudo-science delivered with a straight
We all have atom brains. Even the non-creatures among us. All of our brains are made out of atoms. Our minds, on the other hand,
“Enemy of the State” (1998) is a link from the Seventies to the Nineties to today as it illustrates spy-state apparatuses at the point of
“Waltzes from Vienna” (1934) isn’t quite a musical – after all, it focuses entirely on the creation of a single song, Johann Strauss II’s “The
The “Thin Man” saga survives its transition away from the original trilogy’s writers (Albert Hackett and Frances Goodrich, working from stories by Dashiell Hammett) reasonably