Defiant Success

Right from the get-go with her introduction in John Dahl's The Last Seduction , Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) proves she doesn'...

Jerry Schatzberg's Street Smart  opens with Jonathan Fisher (Christopher Reeve) failing to pitch several ideas to his editor. Then he co...

With horror movies constantly getting remakes, sequels, and spin-offs, it becomes crucial for one to seek out the originals. Amid the variou...

Another year down the drain. And this time, I followed through on my resolution to watch and read more!...for once. Anyway, the list of titl...

Right off the bat, Jonathan Demme's Something Wild  fires off on all pistons. (Then again, what else would you expect from a Roger Corma...

As is often the case with the passage of time, the perception of certain things is bound to alter. What was once taboo is now commonplace, a...

You know how sci-fi movies from the 1950s served as an allegory for the Red Scare and the Cold War? That lurking fear of "the enemy...

There's no denying that Don Coscarelli's Bubba Ho-Tep  has an...unusual premise. Elvis Presley and John F. Kennedy fighting off a mu...

For years, there has been speculation that Christian Nyby's The Thing from Another World  wasn't directed by Nyby but rather by prod...

There's a great establishing shot early in Joseph Ruben's The Stepfather  that helps set up what the viewer is getting into. After f...