During the late 2000s and early 2010s, the erotic thriller took on new life as a black genre – spearheaded largely by Obsessed, a remake of Fatal Attraction, the flagship [...]

Diamonds Are Forever marked Guy Hamilton’s return to the James Bond franchise, and it’s every bit as innovative as Goldfinger, marking Hamilton as the best Bond director [...]

Charles Shyer’s remake of Father of the Bride is one of my “safe space” films, so it was quite uncanny to go back and rewatch the Vincente Minnelli original – all the [...]

Thunderball was a pretty big step down after Goldfinger, but You Only Live Twice was a genuine return to a form – a serious contender for the most iconic Connery Bond. This [...]

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was the only Bond film to feature George Lazenby, and it occupies a strange place in the Bond canon, especially since Sean Connery returned [...]

Few films captured the transition from cable television to dial-up internet quite as eerily and uncannily as The Cable Guy, Ben Stiller’s second film as director after [...]

During the early to mid 90s, the American public reached a watershed moment in their understanding of serial killers, for several different reasons. First, films like The [...]

Of all the films made about and during the COVID-19 lockdown, Locked Down is perhaps the most realistic – and the least enjoyable. It takes place in London, at the peak of [...]

While Alien 3 marked David Fincher’s entry into feature films, Se7en was where he really made his mark, establishing many of the stylistic signatures and conceptual [...]