A century ago, Alfred Hitchcock quietly (indeed, soundlessly) started his career with throwaway rom-dram “The Pleasure Garden.” Fifty-two years and exactly 52 films later, he
“The Final Girls” (2015) continues the grand tradition of making fun of slasher movies, something that has always happened to some degree even within serious
“The Blues Brothers” (1980) has such massive set pieces and action sequences that the belly laughs have little chance at being equally big. But it’s
“The Fly” (1986) is writer-director David Cronenberg’s most mainstream piece of body horror, but that’s a contradiction because body horror will never be a mainstream
While “Jaws” (1975) is considered the first blockbuster because of the sheer amount of money it made, plenty of films before it had buzz, long
It’s a year ending in 5, so that means it’s time for another “Fantastic Four” movie so Fox (and now Disney) doesn’t lose the license.
The Smurl family home in “The Conjuring: Last Rites” includes peeling wallpaper in the stairwell, an accidental metaphor for the way the film uses top-shelf
“It” – in all its incarnations – strikes me as Stephen King’s (and the adapters’) attempt to expand the themes of “Stand By Me” (the
Not merely an outlet for Katie Holmes to scout future exes, “Collateral” (2004) is an expert portrayal of strong and weak personalities interacting, and the
“House of Wax” (2005) falls on the right side of that line with horror movies where you generally know what’s going to happen. On one