David Mamet started his career as a screenwriter, which perhaps explains why he transitioned so seamlessly from a playwright to a director. He’s one of the few [...]

Steven Soderbergh’s latest film may not have been shot on an iPhone, but it cut down production fuss in other ways. Over three-quarters of the screenplay was shot on the [...]

Chloe Zhao’s third film, Nomadland, straddles the border between fiction and documentary. It revolves around a fictional character, Fern, played by Frances McDormand, who [...]

At first glance, a slow-moving western might seem like an atypical choice for Paul Greengrass, who normally focuses on stories about complex media and technology systems. In [...]

Dr. No was the film that first introduced James Bond to the world, so it’s a bit unusual to watch now that the character has been so embedded in the broader cinematic [...]

In many ways, home invasion is one of the most outdated horror genres, since it presumes a world where private property, and ownership of the types of houses that pass for [...]

Adam Sandler had one real shot at playing an adult in Big Daddy and it must have exhausted him, since he doubled down with the most infantile film of his entire career with [...]

Synchronic is the latest from Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, and it’s a strange fever dream of a film. We start with a couple taking a drug that appears to transport [...]

Late last year, Forbes published an article that attempted to assess the scariest movies ever made on the basis of resting and elevated heart rates. Out of all the major [...]

Even though it doesn’t star Adam Sandler, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo was the first film released by Sandler’s Happy Madison production company, which has endured right up [...]