2023 was a good year for horror films starting with the letters “Inf” and involving travelers who have their passports stolen. “Infinity Pool” got more
In one of “The Catcher in the Rye’s” (1951) New York City walkabout vignettes, narrator Holden Caulfield attempts to strike up an intellectual conversation with
The 1987 TV pilot (sometimes called “TV movie”) “Bates Motel” (NBC) is by far the worst installment of the “Psycho” franchise – rating even lower
“Snack Shack” fits firmly into the coming-of-age genre, but it has a tremendous sense of place in 1991 Nebraska City, Neb., and its rhythms are
A fun thing about being a movie fan is that I still come across classics I hadn’t seen before, or – in the case of
In my review of the 2019 TV miniseries adaptation of John Green’s “Looking for Alaska” (2005), I argued that the series breaks down the trope
Alfred Hitchcock adapted three Daphne Du Maurier works, more than any other author. Two are famous: the Oscar-winning “Rebecca” (1940) and the creature-feature favorite “The
A lot has been made about the coming age of AI-generated scripts, but a movie like “Night Swim” (Peacock) makes me wonder if anyone will
A lot of Alfred Hitchcock films are driven by an appealing oddness. “Torn Curtain” (1966) leans more toward an unappealing oddness, leaving it short of
“Late Night with the Devil” (Shudder) has a gripping, grindhouse-esque horror concept wherein the supernatural perhaps encroaches on live TV in 1977. But Aussie writer-directors