“Thanksgiving” promises “there will be no leftovers.” If you believe that, you haven’t noticed how modern horror films let not only the Final Girl but
“Rope” (1948) makes it onto a lot of Alfred Hitchcock top 10 lists despite being his simplest story. (SPOILERS FOLLOW, in the sense that this
“Hercule Poirot’s Christmas” (1938) is a solid book with one of the most unlikely types of killers in Agatha Christie’s catalog, but it’s a little
“Marple: Twelve New Mysteries” (2022) – the first officially published prose about Miss Jane Marple written by someone other than Agatha Christie – should please
“The Thin Man” movie adaptation (1934) is a fascinating case study in how some things work for the written word and some things work for
Revivals often invoke nostalgia for the bygone series, if enough time has passed. It’s been 14 years since “Monk” (2002-09, USA) ended its run as
I recalled “The Thin Man” (1934) being quite a bit lighter than Dashiell Hammett’s other masterpiece, “The Maltese Falcon” (1930). But on this reread the
As “Talk to Me” puts Australian horror back on the map, and “Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor” has me on a found-footage kick,
Seventy-five years after Alfred Hitchcock made a lightly comedic version of “The Lady Vanishes” from Ethel Lina White’s “The Wheel Spins” (1936), we got a
In Philip K. Dick’s “Minority Report,” the three precog crime-solvers are named after legendary mystery novelists: Agatha, Arthur and Dash. Agatha Christie wrote 74 novels,