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Uncle Buck is probably the film that the late John Candy is best remembered for, and with good reason. The comedy boom of...
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Uncle Buck is probably the film that the late John Candy is best remembered for, and with good reason. The comedy boom of...
The Batman (2022), Matthew Reeves’ rain-soaked and idiosyncratic take on the Caped Crusader’s adventures, wasn’t universally loved, but the film’s version of The...
Shane Black scored the biggest hit of his directorial career with 2013’s Iron Man 3, a film that was controversial to die-hard comic...
If Juror #2 is indeed the final directorial effort from legendary filmmaker and star Clint Eastwood, it is hard to imagine a film...
A Real Pain is amov small-cast, dramedy that feels like a throwback to films like Sideways or Garden State. Written, directed, and starring...
Reindeer Games is best remembered as the final feature film from legendary director John Frankenheimer (Seconds, The Manchurian Candidate). Frankenheimer was an iconic...
Sea of Love is a film purpose-built to remind audiences why they love Al Pacino. 1985’s Revolution had been such a demoralizing experience for...
Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat is a real throwback: a horror anthology film built around one town on Halloween night with a wicked...
Fans of action cinema and boutique Blu-ray alike were stunned to read in Variety that the Golden Princess (GP) library of titles was acquired...
The Hunted has an incredible pedigree: William Friedkin was, with the exception of Michael Mann, the most accomplished director of procedural thrillers in...
Pulp Fiction is 30 years old and it feels like a cultural document from the future, not the past. It is an evergreen film:...
Written by Mark Edlitz Foreword by Bruce Feirstein Independently Published “The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at...
Very few films evoke both the virtues of commercial American filmmaking in the 70’s and New York City pre-Giuliani as strongly as Joseph Sargent’s...
The Searchers is one of the five best films produced by the American studio system during the Golden Age of Hollywood. It remains,...
M. Night Shyamalan is a director I tend to root for. In a world of franchise pictures and prestige horror, he’s doing high...
North by Northwest is one of the best known and best loved films by arguably the most famous film director of all time,...
A Simple Plan is a homespun noir, a film about the monsters that dwell within ordinary people when expectations outstrip reality. It focuses on...
Mike Flanagan’s 2016 Hush feels like a cinematic exercise to create the purest thriller possible: a collection of set pieces with minimal dialogue and...
Every stew needs a pinch of salt, but you can’t make a stew out of salt. That culinary metaphor may seem an incongruous...
Thanksgiving is a strange bird: where comedy and the slasher genre have coexisted since Wes Craven’s Scream in 1996, generally the humor is...
Alien: Romulus is almost everything you could want from a soft reboot of the Alien films: strong evocation of the production design and...
Robert Harmon’s The Hitcher is one of the greatest horror films of the 1980’s, full stop. It’s also so much more. A dark...
Those who have been reading my reviews on this site for some time know my great affection for the work of Indonesian gore-king Timo...
Director Wes Craven struck gold in his 1972 debut with Last House on the Left, a grindhouse remake of an art house classic...