“Swordfish” (2001) is a rare movie that I rate low not because of boredom but because of confusion. It’s gutsy in its action sequences and
Woody Allen’s “Coup de Chance” (2023), despite the marketing team trying to bill it as his 50th film, rather remarkably snuck under the radar. (Creative
Reading Michael Wood’s monograph “Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much” (2015, Houghton’s Icons series) is like chatting with an erudite friend about a
Of Dashiell Hammett’s five novels, four inspired an outburst of films: three versions of “The Maltese Falcon,” two versions of “The Glass Key,” six “Thin
Dario Argento’s giallo films are starting to become like tasty snacks three entries in – good for energy, not necessarily nutrition. After “The Bird with
Like “The Net” six years prior, “Antitrust” (2001) mixes turn-of-the-century code theft with cat-and-mouse thrills that date to the beginning of cinema. Thrown in as
My biggest surprise after completing Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Sherlock Holmes” literary canon is that he lays the groundwork for bigger stories more so than writing
“Dial M for Murder” (1954) didn’t need to be remade, but since it was – in 1981’s quote-mark-enhanced “Dial ‘M’ for Murder” – it’s illustrative
One of the greatest unsolved mysteries in the history of mystery TV is: Why has there never been a Continental Op TV series? The unnamed
Scott Derrickson has developed a reputation as a fine filmmaker, but for me he’s leaning toward safe filmmaker. Though his resume includes the excellent “Exorcism