Sci-Fi Thriller ‘Severance’ Paints Sublime and Subversive Art
More than just corporate propaganda, the subversive artworks in Severance hold a strange place in Lumon Industries’ ideological fabric.
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‘Charade’ after 60 Years: A Crossroad Film For Its Golden Age Stars
When you need a break from today’s harsh realities, you need a film like the 1963 comedy/mystery/romance ‘Charade’, starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant.
Horror Film ‘The Empty Man’ Unmasks Internet Age Nihilism
David Prior’s 2020 horror film The Empty Man taps into a form of nihilism that might be taking over the world via social media.
Film Noirs ‘The Guilty’ and ‘High Tide’ Have Strong Literary Roots
Crime stories by Cornell Woolrich, The Guilty, and Raoul Whitfield, High Tide, are masterfully adapted by director John Reinhardt in two restored film noirs.
Val Guest’s Thriller ‘Jigsaw’ Isn’t Cozy Agatha Christie Territory
Jigsaw‘s gritty tone flew in the face of commercial conventions and signaled, in the ’60s, that public discontents were coming for pop entertainment territory.
Pre-Code Films from Directors Beaudine and Vidor Give Creepy Thrills
Restored pre-code films William Beaudine’s ‘The Crime of the Century’ and Charles Vidor’s ‘Double Door’ thrill with their frightening fearlessness.
Alias’ Carl Lumbly and Michael Vartan on Its Legacy and Streaming Rebirth
Alias actors Carl Lumbly and Michael Vartan recall their work with J.J. Abrams, Jennifer Garner, and others on the spy/sci-fi action thriller, now airing on Disney+.
Criminal Subterfuge and Dark Desires in Chabrol’s Minimalist Murder-Mysteries
While murder and crime certainly run deep in Claude Chabrol’s world of subterfuge, the dark desires of human nature that provoke them run immeasurably deeper.
Director Nicholas Ashe Bateman on His Debut Fantasy ‘The Wanting Mare’
Director Nicholas Ashe Bateman on films as images from our dreams and subconscious and his fantasy debut, The Wanting Mare.
Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rich and Strange’ Is a Grimly Comic Journey to the Limits of Marriage
Hitchcock’s Rich and Strange follows a clueless English couple wandering the world and being chastened by what they find: their flawed selves.
Not So Elementary: ‘The Sherlock Holmes Vault Collection’ Offers Rare Deductions
We thoroughly inspect the four 1930s features and bonuses in The Film Detective’s The Sherlock Holmes Vault Collection.
Alfred Hitchcock Plays with Trains in ‘Number Seventeen’
Alfred Hitchcock’s Number Seventeen isn’t a great film but a good one that reminds us of what a casually obsessive craftsman he was.