Defiant Success

Right off the bat, Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre  shows that it's not in the vicinity of messing around. After all, thi...

It tends to be a surprise at how well  some works hold up amid the passage of time. The people involved may have passed on since then, but i...

Boy, was this year garbage or what? With politics going into the toilet, big names dropping like flies, and everything being on figurative a...

There's a real ugliness in people, a festering sickness in one's soul that emerges time and time again. And it's shown its prese...

The opening credits of Ted Kotcheff's Fun with Dick and Jane  shows how the titular couple grew up, met, and settled into the American D...

Comedy is a hard thing to get right. What's funny in one decade could be seen as offensive in the next decade. It's all a matter of ...

Carol Reed is one of the names most synonymous with the film noir genre. With other genres, there always seemed to be something amiss. Most ...

With so many names who grew up on B-movies end up making movies themselves, it's little surprise that such titles would inspire their ow...

Fact is often stranger than fiction. It's why people are so drawn to true crime, and why Hollywood practically drools over the potential...

Tobe Hooper has always been something of an anomaly within Hollywood. After hitting it big with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre , he never seeme...