Category: Looking Back

Gaspar Noé is the living embodiment of the adage that nothing exceeds like excess, a filmmaker whose works are designed to […]

Of the four zombedies released this year — also including The Dead Don’t Die, Little Monsters, and Zombieland: Double Tap — […]

The end of the 1970s saw some of the American filmmakers who had risen to prominence during the decade come under […]

It’s a common enough sight in Christmas films: holiday shoppers admiring animatronic window displays and taking advantage of the sales at […]

Washington Irving’s 1820 short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a classic of Gothic horror, an atmospheric and ambiguous tale […]

“Another movie from an old TV show,” sighs a character at the beginning of 2000’s Charlie’s Angels when confronted with the […]

1999 is considered one of the strongest years of cinema in living memory. There will no doubt be countless articles in […]

In 1989, the popularity of the Nightmare On Elm Street series and its flagship character, Freddy Krueger, were still going strong. […]

We knew on Jan. 1, 2000, that the hysteria surrounding Y2K had been overblown. But before that, the fears that the […]

Ever since the proliferation of the mobile phone, horror filmmakers have to go out of their way to explain why their […]

The fictional metropolis of Gotham has long been a stand-in for New York City, and with Joker, director Todd Phillips borrows […]

Quiz Show opens with a sale. Its first scene follows investigator Dick Goodwin (Rob Morrow) as he speaks with a car […]