Throwback Thursday (Movie review): Coppola’s film from the golden age of neo-noir spy films should’ve started a national conversation. At least it remains a great film.
Sleuthing Sunday (Movie reviews): Likewise moving up in the world, Dashiell Hammett delivers the screen stories for the first two sequels.
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): Though based around Algeria’s break from France, the chase – not the politics – is the name of the game.
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): Look, the special effects and Keaton’s performance are good, but what can I say other than “Humor is subjective.”
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): Polanski blends an iconic Nicholson turn, a good political mystery and California water-utilities history in this classic.
Frightening Friday (Movie review): Kicking off a religious-horror boom that hasn’t relented, Polanski’s classic feels timeless, if overlong.
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): Otto Preminger’s film pivots around the femme fatale and keeps us guessing about whodunit despite a small cast.
The ‘paranoia trilogy’ (Movie review): But it’s not paranoia if it really happened, and that’s the case in one of the all-time best non-fictional accounts of newspaper reporting.
The ‘paranoia trilogy’ (Movie review): Rightly known for launching a new decade of noir style, Alan J. Pakula’s masterpiece is even more impressive as a romance.
Throwback Thursday (Movie review): Starring Cotten and Welles, this is one of the definitive film noirs, elevated by great dialog and fascinating oddities.