The metacommentary about the current state of horror movies in  Scream  (2022, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett) is fun, yet also dis...

1.      Annette  (2021, Leos Carax) 2.      The French Dispatch  (2021, Wes Anderson) 3.      Halloween Kills  (2021, David Gordon Green) 4....

I’d overlooked  Candyman  (1992, Bernard Rose) maybe because before  Scream  (1996, Wes Craven) I didn’t know of any decent early 90s horror...

Paul Thomas Anderson has maybe three distinct phases of his career so far. First there’s the style of his early period, when his films were ...

Out of the Blue  (1980, Dennis Hopper) is a punk Sirkian melodrama with the kind of vitality that’s found in so very few films. It grips you...

Nightmare Alley  (2021, Guillermo del Toro) is a perfect model of the application of genre and setting. Its genre is carnival noir. And its ...

To begin with,  Last Night in Soho  (2021, Edgar Wright) gives us a young woman called ELLIE (Thomasin McKenzie), whose moral anchor is her ...

Ridley Scott’s Red Period is where his late masterpieces are to be found.  Prometheus  (2012, Ridley Scott),  The Counselor  (2013, Scott), ...

Wes Anderson’s most recent movies are like the courtesan au chocolat from Mendl’s. Their instantly recognizable meticulously ornamental desi...

The Last Duel  (2021, Ridley Scott) centers on the plight of the character MARGUERITE DE CARROUGES, played by Jodie Comer. Because Marguerit...