It’s never a good sign when a promotional essay reads almost like an apology or an excuse for the film it’s supposed to be touting. But such is the case with Julie Kirgo’s piece on […]
Tommy (Joe Pesci) is a mobster tasked with the title eight heads that are stuffed into a duffel bag, a treasure meant for a mob boss who wants to make sure that his dirty work […]
One of the more curious early experiments with cinematic sound technology was Thomas Edison’s Kinetophone, a massively complicated mechanism involving a cylinder player and a film projector placed at the front and back of a […]
It’s rare that you can directly trace any sizable movement in cinema back to a single movie. There may be the occasional watershed film where styles and themes coalesce after percolating for several years; but […]
From its opening citation—a line from David Bowie’s 1971 song “Changes,” about children being “quite aware of what they’re going through”—to its final, rebelliously jubilant freeze frame, The Breakfast Club makes no attempt to hide […]
I had no idea that In the Mouth of Madness had gotten middling reviews on its initial release. I’ve always thought it one of John Carpenter’s best films. But part of all that could be […]
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