Harry Palmer’s personal file reads like a permanent record: “Insubordinate, insolent, a trickster…perhaps with criminal tendencies.” When his new boss, another […]
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Though box office bombs come and go, some live on in infamy. Kevin Reynolds’ post-apocalyptic action flick Waterworld holds the usual […]
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I grew up in the Rotten.com days. For the morbid adolescent, crime scene photos and grisly images of freak accidents were […]
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One of the most excruciating and heartbreaking aspects to Bruce Lee’s death in 1973 – beyond his tender age (32) and […]
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In the forty years since the release of Brian De Palma’s Dressed to Kill, the conversation has shifted from the controversy […]
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By the 1980s, the art of composing music for films had undergone several sea changes. The craft moved from traditional orchestration […]
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It is strange to consider how often teen movies are about young women, and how frequently those stories are told by […]
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The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise is about Freddy Krueger. With his burn scars, his tattered red and green sweater, his […]
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On May 8, 1970, the AFL-CIO mobilized some two hundred New York City construction workers and sicc’ed them on about a […]
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The 1980s, packed full of kid-driven adventure films, has just as many beautiful disasters as it does universally beloved hits. But […]
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Truffaut’s famous dictum regarding the impossibility of ever making a truly anti-war film is, usually, equally applicable to movies about cops. […]
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The first two minutes of Robert Hiltzik’s 1983 feature film crawl forward from the lake setting with overwhelming Manfredini-esque horns and […]
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