Actress Stella Baker in Beck Kitsis’ The Three Men You Meet at Night. Some horror movies cause people to become afraid of things they didn’t fear before (a red balloon after watching IT; a teacup after watching Get Out). Beck ...

While practicing her eulogy for her mother’s funeral, Priscilla (Sophie Lowe, Once Upon A Time in Wonderland) credits her mom with giving her sister, Mary Beth (Morgan Saylor, Homeland), and her “Strong moral compass.” That night, Mary Beth kills a ...

Ida Lupino was the second woman inducted into the DGA. It’s the reason I felt like I should review this box set and should is the accurate word, unfortunately. No other female directors were working in Hollywood when she was, ...

Right up until the end, when the subtitle “Chapter One” gets used for the first time, I thought It (2017) would be a standalone movie. Then the jig was up because blockbusters aren’t like TV shows. They don’t tease sequels ...

Congresswoman Phoebe Frost (Jean Arthur) didn’t come to post-war Berlin for romance (and she doesn’t fall in love because she’s the only woman amongst her male colleagues). She came as part of a congressional committee to look into the morale ...

What would you say if I told you there was a silent comedian contemporary of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin who used stop animation in his shorts? Raymond Borde didn’t know his name, either, when he found three of his ...

While the openings to Fred Walton’s The Sitter (1977), When A Stranger Calls (1979), and When A Stranger Calls Back (1993) don’t match-up completely, they are remarkably similar, and when it comes to The Sitter and When A Stranger Calls ...

The first time I started Slovak director Stefan Uher’s The Miraculous Virgin (Panna Zázracnica, 1966), it didn’t end. I started the film over before it was finished, but it was the right call because the second time I decided to ...

Not every spy can be James Bond but then Gerald Arthur Otley (Tom Courtenay) never meant to be a spy in the first place. When he’s not being pulled into matters of classified intelligence, Otley is a man absorbed with ...

Maybe being granted three wishes was never a straightforward process, but there must have been a time when they were something to hope for, because despite all the horror stories of wishes gone bad, the idea that they can help ...