The Craft
Every October I imagine that everybody watches at least one Neve Campbell film. Scream (1996) may be the quintessential Neve Campbell film, but The Craft (1996) is the go to… Read more »
Every October I imagine that everybody watches at least one Neve Campbell film. Scream (1996) may be the quintessential Neve Campbell film, but The Craft (1996) is the go to… Read more »
I’m ashamed to admit that I haven’t seen Robert Wise’s film of The Haunting (1963); nor have I read Shirley Jackson’s acclaimed novel The Haunting Of Hill House. I am,… Read more »
Having recently just acquired a house for the first time I felt more deeply affected by this film than I did when I first saw it when I was about… Read more »
By 1992 Francis Ford Coppola had become a director for hire, restricted by the financial debt incurred with the prestige Zoetrope productions of One From The Heart (1982), Rumble Fish… Read more »
“Memories of movies are strand over strand with memories of my life. During the quarter of a century (roughly from 1935 to 1960) in which going to the movies was… Read more »
Over the summer I finally caught up with John and Drew Dowdle’s Waco (2018) and two things were immediately clear to me before the first episode was over. Firstly, the… Read more »
What James Cameron sets out to do with True Lies (1994), and does, is to make a genre film that is absolutely about its genre without ever being openly analytical… Read more »
After a pleasant weekend at the Philadelphia Comic-Con, for whatever reason, my mind wandered to Mark Rappaport’s film Impostors (1979). It was refreshing and encouraging to remember a film which… Read more »
When The Walt Disney Company released Sister Act (1992) through Touchstone Pictures they sold the film as a family comedy and targeted parents with children between the ages of 8… Read more »
In translating Melville’s novel onto film Carax has found his cinematic footing somewhere between Robert Bresson and André Téchiné. What exploitative qualities that exist in Pola X (1999) simply serve to better… Read more »