Sandberg: Lights Out (2016)
Not only does David Sandberg’s debut film turn on the best horror premise since It Follows, but it turns on a premise so brilliant that it’s hard to believe that it’s [...]
July 2016
Badham: Dracula (1979)
One of the first major post-Hammer adaptations of Bram Stoker’s novel, John Badham’s Dracula stars Frank Langella in the title role, along with Donald Pleasance as Dr. [...]
Stillman: Love & Friendship (2016)
While it may not reach as many audiences or become quite as engrained in popular culture, Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship is the most thorough reinvention of Jane [...]
Jewison: Best Friends (1982)
Written by Barry Levinson and Valerie Curtin and based on their own relationship, Best Friends is a strange and haunting mixture of screwball comedy and soulful romantic [...]
Lumet: Deathtrap (1982)
Based on the bestselling play by Ira Levin, Deathtrap is a housebound mystery in the vein of Clue and Sleuth and, all in all, represents one of Sidney Lumet’s finest [...]
Goldenberg: A Deadly Adoption (2015)
Although it may have prompted James Franco to reimagine Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?, it’s clear, from the very outset, that Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Lifetime [...]
Aitkenhead: Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? (2016)
While Mother, May I Sleep With Danger? may be billed as an adaptation of the 1996 Lifetime cult classic, the real adaptation actually happened several years ago. At a [...]
Montesi: Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? (1996)
Although we often hear about how mainstream cinema and television is driven by the male gaze – an equation of patriarchal values with the act of watching – it’s often [...]
The Girlfriend Experience: Season 1 (2016)
I’ve never worked in a corporate law firm, but many of my friends have, and from the anecdotes they’ve told me I’d wager that The Girlfriend Experience is one of the [...]