In “The Descendants,” another great Hawaii-set film from the same year, George Clooney says “This is paradise? F*** paradise.” And his character merely has financial
“The Shallows” (2016) is minimalist shark horror as high art. Surfer/med student Nancy (Blake Lively) gets stranded on a rock two football-field lengths from a
Brrrrrrring brrrrrrrring! The sound of a telephone ringing is a core element in horror films from “Black Christmas” to “Scream.” Now Alexander Graham Bell’s invention is
Michael Crichton died in 2008 and will therefore never write or direct another film – although if his estate’s policy against selling his books’ rights
I’m glad for Canadian films like “Summer of 84” (2018) because I can pretend to be an aficionado of under-the-radar foreign horror without having to
Movie narratives aren’t usually shot chronologically, but “Point Break” (1991) plays like the filmmakers are learning and improving as they go. The opening walk-and-talk between
As time goes by, Renny Harlin’s “Deep Blue Sea” (1999) is becoming more appreciated as a great horror action thriller from the dawn of CGI
“Comedy” is one of the categories IMDb lists for “Dealing, or The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues” (1972). But this is the driest kind of comedy
If you tend to take spoiler warnings casually, take it more seriously with “Fresh” (Hulu) when it comes up later in this post. Writer Lauryn Kahn
In “The Gift” (2015), husband and wife Simon and Robyn (Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall) have dinner with guest Gordo (Joel Edgerton). They aren’t truly