Film

What’s the point of choice if you always take the same path? “Your mission, should you choose to accept it.” Come on. He’s Ethan Hunt. For twenty-two years he’s never turned down a job, and if he continues narrowly to escape death, ...

Few filmmakers captured urban terror and anxiety as brilliantly as William Lustig. Born and raised in The Bronx on a steady diet of grindhouse movies, the native New Yorker made a name for himself in the 1980s with a slew ...

The entire history of cinematic (and theatrical) adaptations of Robert Louis Stevenson’s immortal classic of Dr. Jekyll and his monstrous counterpart Mr. Hyde is a vast and varied one and something that often gets overlooked when movie monsters are discussed ...

Ghost stories seem to be an undying trend in cinema. Like spirits haunting the living, so too do ghost stories continue to haunt audiences. This year’s The Witch in the Window is a ghost story from Andy Mitton, a director ...

The history of art is littered with vanity projects, but few are as entertaining as Cobra, a 1986 Sylvester Stallone action vehicle that the Italian Stallion created for himself as a means to play his own version of Dirty Harry. ...

In Disney’s Pinocchio, an absolute masterpiece of animation and storytelling, one of the most profound central themes that sits as the thematic crux is the complicated notion of “doing the right thing” and always letting your conscience be your guide. ...

Under the banner of Solar Productions, Bullitt was the first film Steve McQueen made with producing partner Robert E. Relyea. As their prospective director, McQueen had his sights set on Peter Yates, having recently seen the Englishman’s 1967 UK feature ...

Empathy is a word I find myself typing a lot these days. Got to get the word out, the ability to understand and share the feelings of others is a righteous action. We must seek compassion not only for the ...

On today, this most revered day, the great Dutch director Paul Verhoeven celebrates his 80th birthday and I, in turn, am celebrating his incredible, often misunderstood career. For a brief, golden period, Verhoeven left the Netherlands and came to work ...

Set against the backdrop of mid-west America during the late 1800s, in a small halcyon town that is magically depicted as shadowy and a host to an enumeration of deep rooted secrecy, Albert Band’s Face of Fire (1959) is a ...