Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation (BluRay Review)
FILM REVIEW In between making his hit films The Godfather Parts 1 and 2, Francis Ford Coppola chose to develop an original screenplay he...
Tagged: thriller
Kevin Smith’s Red State
“I said this was gonna be a simple in and out, well simple just shit itself” Writer-Director Kevin Smith established his career by making...
The Music of John Carpenter’s CHRISTINE
When the Literary Master of Horror meets Film’s Master of Horror, it’s a recipe for some truly furious cinema. That’s exactly what the result...
The Resident
Throughout the 60s and 70s Britain’s Hammer Studios produced some of the all time greatest horror and science fiction genre films of their time...
Film Noir Classics: DETOUR
Detour (1945) is an early example of film noir (or black film) it’s name referring to the darkly stylized aesthetic the films had. This...
Paul Schrader’s Cat People
40 years after Jacques Tourneur‘s classic 1942 thriller was released, Director Paul Schrader (Blue Collar, Hardcore) crafted a mesmerizing modern retelling and injected it...
BLOW OUT (Criterion Collection BluRay)
In some exciting home entertainment news, Brian DePalma’s 1981 conspiracy-thriller masterpiece Blow Out is coming to the Criterion Collection in April! John Travolta stars...
Roman Polanski’s Cul-De-Sac
cul–de–sac 1: a blind diverticulum or pouch 2: a street or passage closed at one end. Two wounded criminals Dickie (Lionel Stander) and his...
FALLING DOWN
Michael Douglas stars as William Foster a divorcée who loses his job as a defense engineer. Foster (known in the film only from his...
Charles Laughton’s The Night of The Hunter
Charles Laughton’s only outing as a director The Night of the Hunter (1955) has been recently released on DVD by the good folks at...
