CRIMEWATCH: Taken
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS! Taken stars Liam Neeson and I think this is his best role. He’s done a bunch of crappy movies in...
Tagged: thrillers
Ridley Scott’s Prometheus
2-D VERSION – THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS! Ridley Scott’s latest, which is actually a pre-prequel to his 1979 sci fi thriller Alien almost...
CRIMEWATCH: Falling Down
Falling Down is proof that not all Joel Schumacher films suck (it’s mainly just his Batman movies). This is a great film that I...
The Films of Don Siegel: Dirty Harry
We couldn’t do our Don Siegel retrospective without reviewing the film that features one of the international icons of popular cinema… Clint Eastwood plays...
The Films of Don Siegel: The Beguiled
During the Civil War, somewhere in the state of Louisiana, a Union soldier John McBirney (Clint Eastwood) is seriously injured in battle and on...
The Films of Don Siegel: Telefon
In this 1977 spy thriller, a rogue KGB agent Nikolai Dalchimski (Donald Pleasance) steals a secret book containing the names of operatives hidden all...
The Strangler
I first became aware of the rotund character actor Victor Buono from his role as the comical schizoid villain King Tut on the 1960s...
Re-Evaluating PSYCHO
PSYCHO (1960, Dir: Alfred Hitchcock) When the “Master of Suspense” set out to make this movie it was to be a modest, low budget...
Walter Hill’s Southern Comfort
Walter Hill got his start in film as an assistant director on Bullitt (1968), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and Woody Allen’s screwball crime...
Playing The Game: Transcendance Through Chaos
Our latest analytical article looks at two films by David Fincher and compares and contrasts themes and characters that connect the movies. “The game...
