Alfred Hitchcock was the Master of Suspense, but one thing he never mastered was a consistent sense of proper pacing and movie length. “Under Capricorn”
At least give writer-director Parker Finn credit for finding a new angle into his “Smile” saga. He follows up his popular but slightly overrated 2022
Nowadays mystery authors dream of creating a cash-cow detective like Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot or The Continental Op. So it’s not like readers and authors
“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
“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” (1892) is simultaneously a timelessly great read – with deliberate yet steadily moving prose that flows like honey today –