But outside of being reminded of how well the Phantasmagoria troop understands the allure of horror, the nostalgic visit back ...

The Tragedy of Red Dragon: How Manhunter found the movie inside the Nightmare.

A Pleasure to Read. English professor Roger Bakes shares his thoughts on Freeline Media's new book, A Distant Plague ...

This ten-part personal essay on iconic director Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie was part of Maddy’s Third Master of Suspense Blogathon. Click here for the site in general, which is called Classic Film and ...

The Greatest Rock ’n’ Roll Movie Ever Made. While some movies are instantly recognized as “classics,” others earn their pantheon status through critics, historians and institutions who have ...

There’s a familiar honorific in American letters: “The Great American Novel.” It’s been attached, with varying degrees of seriousness and exhaustion, to Moby-Dick, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ...

Some people say that 1939 was the best year for cinema (me me me) and what a year it was: Gone With The Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Ninotchka, Dark Victory and Stagecoach are ...

Perhaps the highest compliment I can give to Canyon Passage is that it may be the most fascinating western to come from the Classical Hollywood era. Adapted from a 1945 Saturday Evening Post novelette ...

There is nothing like a career best performance. There are some actors who have many of them and there are some who don’t have any. But even among the best of the best, there are roles that are so ...

In 1977 Brazil, former professor and widower Armando travels during Carnivale to Recife, where his young son Fernando has been living with his in-laws since the death of his wife, Fátima Nascimento.

Editor’s Note: Joseph Aisenberg, the noted author of Brian de Palma’s Carrie: Studies In the Horror Film, has some thoughts of cinema and why we love movies, as seen through the film criticism of ...

This ten-part personal essay on iconic director Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is part of Maddy’s Second Master of Suspense Blogathon. Click here to view the blog entry and here for the site in general, ...