
Film: Unsane
Steven Soderbergh is always worth checking out, and while Unsane (2018) isn’t his most accomplished outing, it’s a classy,…
August 15, 2022Steven Soderbergh is always worth checking out, and while Unsane (2018) isn’t his most accomplished outing, it’s a classy,…
August 15, 2022Something about the grungy look and feel of seventies cinema appeals to me, and Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)…
July 25, 2022Edgar Wright has gifted us with the likes of Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver, and Scott Pilgrim vs.…
July 19, 2022For a guy who “retired” in 2013, Steven Soderbergh sure is prolific. After coming out of retirement in 2017,…
February 13, 2022I can’t say I went into Enemy (2013) with boundless enthusiasm, given it presents like a cheesy “separated at…
December 31, 2021Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Les Diaboliques (1955) is the follow-up to his superb suspense adventure The Wages of Fear, and while…
July 24, 2021I can’t say I whole-heartedly loved Under the Silver Lake (2018), but for me it was the perfect film…
August 17, 2020Last year I watched Amazon Prime’s Homecoming convinced it was a limited series. Learning a second season was on…
May 26, 2020Considering Orson Welles’ pedigree, I was hoping for a bit more from The Stranger (1946), a creepy small-town potboiler…
January 15, 2019Based, remarkably, on a podcast, Amazon Prime’s Homecoming is another feather in the cap for Sam Esmail, creator of…
January 3, 2019A mildly diverting World War II spy caper based on a novel by Helen MacInnes, Above Suspicion (1943) is…
June 25, 2018Contraband (1940) reunites director Michael Powell with stars Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson, the team that collaborated in the…
January 28, 2018Part beaten-to-death Twilight Zone premise, part third-rate Hitchcock knockoff, The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) is a quirky, colorful…
September 13, 2017A week ago today, the great Martin Landau died. Landau first caught my attention in the great Hitchcock caper…
July 22, 2017I had pretty low expectations for Coma (1978), which is probably why it met them so comfortably. Dr. Susan…
April 11, 2017