Drone warfare changed how America goes to war and, to an extent, the way filmmakers bring combat scenes to life.
The bravura 2015 film “Eye in the Sky” explored the morality of pushing buttons to...
Some movies define their genre in ways time can’t touch.
Go ahead and make a killer shark movie. You won’t lap 1975’s “Jaws.” The same holds for 1973’s “The Exorcist” (possession thrillers)...
There’s an unwritten rule come Oscar season, one that crushes the award’s populist clout.
Blockbuster movies can’t be Oscar bait.
This wasn’t always the case. Just think...
Imagine being a young film buff, working in a video store and writing a screenplay that tapped into your every cinephile fantasy.
The script provided a celluloid alternate life in which you are...
When Robert Altman died on November 20, 2006, I was a few hours away from teaching a class on his life and works.
A number of students called me that morning to inform me of his passing....
Quentin Tarantino doesn’t recreate the end of the Flower Power era in “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.”
He straps you into Doc Brown’s DeLorean and wakes you...
In “Underwater,” no one can hear you muttering, “what the bleep is going on?”
This “Alien” clone features indecipherable jump scares, dialogue and kills....
Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel, “American Psycho,” begins with “Abandon all ye who enter here,” as it appears as graffiti on a wall.
Director Mary Herron’s...
The original “Alien” featured a first-class creature and a corporate drone eager to do its dirty work.
In “Sputnik” we’ve got another critter from the stars, but the bigger...
Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs” introduces each of its main characters by showing them in their home or temporary habitat.
We meet FBI cadet Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster)...
Writer/director Wes Craven knows a little something about what makes us squirm – suspense being at the top of a long list of qualities M.I.A. in that ill-rated remake.
Craven’s original shocker...
Anthony Hopkins won an Oscar for his disturbing portrait of evil in “The Silence of the Lambs.”
Sissy Spacek scored a Best Actress nomination for playing a teen with telekinetic powers in...
“Procession” allows Catholics and non-Catholics alike to understand the dynamics of the U.S. clergy sex abuse scandal.
The “smoke of Satan in the Sanctuary” hates the purifying light of day.
The...
Your host gets candid about what he can, and can't say on this show. A 2018 movie gives us one more chance to enjoy this Hollywood icon at work. Comedian Tyler Fischer is telling jokes on his terms, and...
The 1986 smash “Top Gun” was both a movie and a pop cultural moment.
The latter mattered more, given the tenor of the times. President Ronald Reagan lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW D.C.,...
The fourth and famously awful “Jaws The Revenge” (1987) turns 35 this summer, and it often comes up as one of the worst sequels ever made.
It’s actually slightly better than its atrocious reputation,...
The American Dream circa 2022 is a white picket fence, a steady paycheck and enough leisure time to enjoy the fruits of one’s labor.
For Gina Carano’s character in “Terror on the Prairie,” it’s...
Elvis may have left the building, but in Baz Luhrmann’s hands he never leaves a mark.
“Elvis,” the umpteenth take on the late rock icon, is different than every past presentation. That’s healthy...
There’s something seriously funny about Brad Pitt’s recent Oscar win.
The A-lister richly deserved the statuette for his work in “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” but since then he’s been...
Walter Hill is back in the saddle, courtesy of “Dead for a Dollar.”
The action auteur behind “The Long Riders,” “Wild Bill” and “Geronimo: An American Legend” returns to his beloved genre....
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