Film, Horror
Film: The Brood
David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1979) is an unspectacular-looking film, but it generates a nicely weird and unsettling atmosphere with…
September 16, 2021-
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Film, ThrillerFilm: Sisters
What in the world possessed the Criterion Collection to feature Brian De Palma’s Sisters (1973)? Offering the merest glimmer…
April 24, 2016 -
Film, ThrillerFilm: The Call
Brad Anderson is one of those directors whose films I go out of my way to see. Along with…
September 9, 2013 -
Drama, FilmFilm: Hitchcock
Like the highly similar HBO film The Girl — a project I’m finding it hard not to compare this…
April 17, 2013 -
Drama, FilmFilm: The Girl
Here’s the first of two recently produced Alfred Hitchcock biopics: The Girl (2012), an HBO original film that examines the…
November 9, 2012 -
Film, Spies, Spy 100 Project, ThrillerSpy 100, #48: Torn Curtain
Alfred Hitchcock’s Torn Curtain (1966) doesn’t quite live up to the director’s previous masterpieces — it came out on…
April 5, 2011