Happy Halloween, everyone! Today, we’ve got two DVD reviews to get you into the Halloween spirit: John Carpenter’s classic Halloween (1978), now available in a 35th Anniversary Blu-Ray package from Anchor Bay, and John Hancock’s Let’s Scare […]
Weary Londoners Rick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland) and his sister, Pamela (Ruth Hussey), are hiking along the coast in Cornwall one day when they come across a glorious old mansion, Windward House. After chasing their wayward […]
Throughout the studio era of Hollywood, classic films were generally limited by the tight constraints of the Production Code. Married couples couldn’t share a bed, kisses were light pecks interspersed with completely unrelated, unsexy conversation, […]
I could watch Jeff Bridges eat potato salad. He’s one of our most gifted actors, and up until maybe 15 years ago, highly underrated. He’s finally come into his own, with cultists who can recite […]
The motif of triangles in Roman Polanski’s Knife in the Water… Gah! Who am I kidding? If anyone tried to write on the literal and figurative triangles in this film, they’d wind up in the madhouse […]
Editor’s note: This review contains spoilers. About halfway into director Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave there is a moment of profound serenity: the Louisiana bayou is seen on a stunning, bright day; wind rustles through […]
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