In preparing to watch In a Lonely Place (Ray, 1950) for this episode, I...

Rope (1948) is Alfred Hitchcock’s almost perfect crime. Based loosely upon the real life...

With circumstances completely against it, but with the brightest imaginations around set alight by...

When the Creature from the Black Lagoon crawled from the sea onto cinema screens...

A first among equals as a sports film, Hoosiers (Anspaugh, 1986) is an ideal...

It’s not often that a recent release strikes such an immediate chord with us...

Episode 069. Nice. Happy Valentine’s Day, y’all! We learn an awful lot of things...

What happens when you take a preternatural talent and give him a gigantic crew,...

When I first encountered Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives...

Like so many of my favorite Billy Wilder films, The Apartment (1960) begins with...

It’s our third annual Ants In Your Pants episode, as we close out 2017!...

A world of pure imagination. That’s what we’re promised by Mel Stuart’s Willy Wonka...

The moment Sandra wakes up from her sleep, I knew Two Days, One Night...

Barbara Loden is a unique figure in American independent cinema. Before directing her lone...

It’s that time again! In this episode, The Magic Jack O’Lantern 2017, we once...

“You have to embrace the darkness,” film editor Todd Ramsay told director John Carpenter....

Terence Fisher and Hammer Films introduced the world to its first truly modern vampire...

After repeated viewings, contemplation, and discussion, I don’t know what drives the main character...

Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood (2007) came to me at a difficult...

Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954) has always been one of my favorites, and having too...