I'm kinda shocked I had never even heard of this little thriller. It's creepy, it's macabre, it has Bette Davis, and a spl...

No matter what, violence is inherently cinematic. Filmmakers can make it horrific and traumatizing or they can make it ludicrous and co...

On a recent rewatch of Mulholland Drive , I was observing how many scene transitions were simply hard cuts. One minute we are with one s...

The Following Contains Vague Spoilers. Proceed With Caution. Man that ending still packs a whallop. When I first saw this film a few y...

Not too long ago I was writing about "ideal" PG-13 films. These are movies that are perfect for middle schoolers to watch at ...

If I were a filmmaker, I would not want to get anywhere near this material. Due to my privilege as a straight, cis-gender male, I've ...

Prior to World War II, America was A world power. After World War II, we were THE world power. Unlike Japan and all the various countri...

When Martin Scorsese decided to make The Age of Innocence , a lot of people were baffled that a filmmaker so synonymous with violence w...

Of all the various sub-genres in cinema, the paranoid thriller is pretty close to the top of my list. Probably the only sub-genre that ...

Essentially this movie is a dialogue. Like The Confession before it, this film is primarily built around two people talking. But don...

I’m pretty sure this is the most chilling film that I have ever seen. I’ve seen all sorts of screwed up movies about good and bad peo...

To most of his detractors, Brian De Palma is known as, “the guy who rips off Alfred Hitchcock”. The argument is valid but most people o...

After the release of Oldboy and Memories of Murder in 2003, South Korean cinema was everywhere. Suddenly cinephiles all over the globe...

One of the greatest things about film is its ability to generate empathy. By watching a film we gain the ability to see the world from ...

On the Criterion bluray of Blow Out there is an extended video conversation between Brian De Palma and Noah Baumbach. When this was fi...

Sometimes great filmmakers just want to play. Lots of reviews at the time pointed out that this film wasn't awards material, but th...

After World War I, Germany was so economically devastated that the entire country ended up allowing a genocidal madman to become its le...

After The President (Fredric March) signs a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union, members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff begi...

A jealous saxaphone player (Bill Pullman) is imprisoned for murdering his wife (Patricia Arquette) until one night he transforms into s...

Three years after the assassination of a popular Presidential Candidate, people who were there start dying under mysterious circumstances...