Frightening Friday (Movie review): Just because Cronenberg’s film is many people’s introduction to body horror doesn’t mean he eases you into the subgenre.
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): The Gene Hackman-starring, Irwin Allen-produced film influenced the next wave of ocean-based disaster movies.
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): Standout turns by Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx make a relatively small, inconsequentially plotted film into a big deal.
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): One of the deepest big-name casts ever assembled ushers the famous novelist to film.
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): In a film that pries into the nature of evil, it’s the lack of a good answer that’s most disturbing.
Frightening Friday (Movie review): Some will get into the groove of this “Phantom of the Opera” for the ’70s, others will be bored. I was somewhere in between.
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): Even in a year of “Office Space” and “American Pie,” “American Beauty” stands out as something beautiful.
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): In his masterwork of dark comedy, Tarantino relies on the audience’s cinema knowledge to cleverly invert the crime genre’s traditional message.
Wilder Wednesday (Movie review): Ray Milland gives one of the most sobering (irony intended) portrayals of a drunk in Wilder’s stark masterpiece.
Wilder Wednesday (Movie review): As a portrayal of a single journalist’s power, it’s not particularly plausible, but the film is entertaining.