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This movie opens with views of a manual typewriter, and indignant words being spelled out letter by letter. The time and place of this new movie co-directed by Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman, who also wrote the screenplay, becomes clear. It’s the United States in 1918, and the Spanish Flu is making its way to […]

Once you get over the fact that there won’t be much resembling logical human behavior in “Detained,” the film that follows undeniably provides its own simple pleasures in the Goofy Escapism department. Heavily inspired by “The Usual Suspects,” right down to the inclusion of a mysterious villain who might be in the room with us,

Co-directors Steven Kanter and Henry Loevner reunite (after their COVID-set breakup comedy “The End of Us”) for their sophomore feature, “Peak Season.” Engaged couple Amy (Claudia Restrepo) and Max (Ben Coleman) jet off from NYC to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for a breath of fresh air as they finalize details for their upcoming wedding. And while

Giuliano Carnimeo’s very first undertaking as a director was with this film. Once Enzo G. Castellari, who had collaborated with Tito Carpi in writing the screenplay, chose to not direct the movie, this was his first film as an independent director. The film features an amiable gunslinger paired with his irritable assistant and is somewhat

The name Hammer used to command a certain level of respect in the annals of horror cinema–from the late 1950s to the early ’70s, you could pin the label to some of the campiest, schlockiest, most entertaining creature features around, from camp retellings of Universal monsters to sci-fi Quatermass mysteries. But the Hammer Films of

Amateur actor Joe Clifford returns to his hometown to collect his inheritance from his uncle. What he finds, however, is a man living in his family’s gold mine. to make matters worse, he suspects this same man could be responsible for his uncle’s passing. Joe decides to take matters into his own hands and rightfully

Max (Ruaridh Mollica) is like many young writers I met in my 20s. Ambitious, smart, rather dashing when talking about an art he’s passionate about, which in his case, is literature and the work of enfant terrible writer Bret Easton Ellis. Max is a touch cocky for a freelancer, he’s known to accidentally alienate friends

CAPTAIN SCARFACE (Director Paul Guilfoyle Writer Charles Lang Cinematographer Norbert Brodine Editor Gene Fowler Jr. Music Leon Klatzkin Cast Leif Erickson as Sam Wilton, Virginia Grey as Elsa Yeager, Rudolph Anders as Dr. Yeager, John Mylong as Kroll, Paul Brinegar as Clegg, Howard Wendell as Fred Dilts, Isabel Randolph as Kate Dilts, Barton MacLain as

As someone who venerates Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson’s 1955 hymn to the power of imagination (I gift every love one’s new baby with a copy of the book with a purple crayon taped inside), the idea of a film adaptation has always filled me with a certain sense of trepidation. This is

Pop music really can change your life. That’s part of the setup of M. Night Shyamalan’s near-miss of a thriller “Trap,” a movie that feels less like the Night Brand than a lot of his twisty ventures, a pared-down version of what he does that needed a round or two more of fleshing out its