Latest Reviews

city_lights
8.4
City Lights (1931) ()
January 27, 2012 -

Talkies were well entrenched when Charlie Chaplin swam against the filmmaking tide with this forever classic that’s silent except for music and sound effects. His message is unspoken, but universally understood: love is blind

godfather
9.5
The Godfather (1972) ()
January 24, 2012 -

Popularly viewed as one of the best American films ever made, this multi-generational crime saga is a touchstone of cinema: one of the most widely imitated, quoted, and lampooned movies of all time. Nominated for 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

psycho
9.0
Psycho (1960) ()
January 22, 2012 -

One of the most shocking films of all time, join me on a chilling journey through Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, where an unsuspecting victim visits the Bates Motel and falls prey to one of cinema’s most notorious psychopaths – Norman Bates.

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8.4
Seconds (1966) ()
January 20, 2012 -

Rock Hudson stars in this unsettling look at second chances. Seconds, for all its thriller aspects, contains some sad and disturbing meditations on the way we make our own prisons. Director John Frankenheimer uses skewed angles, bizarre close-ups, and fisheye lenses to underscore the film’s off-kilter tension.

paris-texas
9.3
Paris, Texas (1984) ()
January 15, 2012 -

German New Wave pioneer Wim Wenders brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas a profoundly moving character study written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard. From this simple setup, Wenders and Shepard produce a powerful statement on codes of masculinity and the myth of the American family, as well as an exquisite visual exploration of a vast, crumbling world of canyons and neon.

scream_poster
7.7
Scream (1996) ()
January 10, 2012 -

After a series of mysterious deaths befalls their small town, an offbeat group of friends led by Sidney Prescott become the target of a masked killer in this smash-hit that launched the Scream franchise and breathed new life into the horror genre.

fat
6.0
À ma sœur (aka Fat Girl) (2001) ()
January 10, 2012 -

A dissection of sibling rivalry and female adolescent sexuality, Fat Girl follows the ever-watchful Anaïs as she bears witness to the corruption of her sister’s innocence.

Halloween
9.1
Halloween (1978) ()
January 5, 2012 -

The film which ushered in the modern age of horror stands well above its many sequels and clones because John Carpenter’s taut direction makes it truly scary. Jamie Lee Curtis in her debut role plays a babysitter who must protect herself from the deadly Michael Myers, a mental institution escapee who killed his sister on Halloween fifteen years earlier. Called “the most successful independent motion picture of all time”, Halloween is also one of most frightening films ever made.

suspiria
8.2
Suspiria (1977) ()
January 4, 2012 -

Outside of devoted cult audiences, many Americans have yet to discover the extremely stylish, relentlessly terrifying Italian horror genre, or the films of its talented virtuoso, Dario Argento. Suspiria, part one of a trilogy, is considered his masterpiece by Argento devotees but also doubles as a perfect starting point for those unfamiliar with the director or his genre. But once you’ve seen it, you’ll never forget it.

nightmare
8.8
A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) ()
January 3, 2012 -

1, 2, Freddy’s coming for you. And here he is, Freddy Krueger in all his razor-fingered infamy. Wes Craven directs this trendsetting first in the slash-hit series.