Film

Bullies have played a significant and recurring role in Stephen King’s work from his earliest days as a published author. In these works, the bullies represent a significant and (generally) familiar villain for his protagonist(s) to overcome, often amid their ...

Pat Boone had a decent career as a movie star, but he was no Elvis Presley. However, he starred in over a dozen films, had a couple of huge hits and for a few years was one of the biggest ...

From 1959 to 1965, Tommy Kirk films appeared in the annual list of the top twenty most popular films in North America every year. It was an astonishing run of commercial successes – The Shaggy Dog (1959), Swiss Family Robinson ...

The following films screened at Arrow Video FrightFest, held in London from 22–26 August, 2019. Dark Encounter (U.K., 2019) is an alien abduction film unlike pretty much any other that has come before. It’s an odd beast, in the best ...

The Bollywood thriller Gumnaam (1965) isn’t shy about the sort of films that have influenced it. Adopting the jet-set internationality of the 1960s, it becomes an amalgamation of old-fashioned “old dark house” murder mysteries and pop-art modernism filtered through the ...

“My mother’s maiden name was McConnell. Her ancestors are Canadian, Irish, Scotch and Welsh. And, on the Harper side, they are French, English and, according to my sister, American Indian. But, I think her addition of American Indian came after ...

The following films screened at Arrow Video FrightFest, which was held in London from 22–26 August, 2019. A woman who is convinced her baby was delivered by caesarean section and kidnapped by a shadowy cult tries to convince skeptical authorities ...

Michael Haneke once described Schindler’s List (1993) as “unspeakable.” His disgust came from a scene in which women are forced into a gas chamber, and the suspense of whether or not gas or water is to come from the shower ...

Disc Details Kino Lorber, 2019. Region A.  Feature:  Black and white, 103 mins. Aspect ratio 1.37:1.  The Movie Anthology horror films, otherwise known as portmanteau, contain several short films linked by a narrative framing device. It is a popular format ...

“Ju-on: A curse born of grudge held by someone who dies in the grip of anger. It gathers in the places frequented by that person in life, working its spell on those who come into contact with it and thus ...