Soliloquies of the English Cloister

I'm taking some time at the moment to rewatch some of the horror films of my misspent teens and twenties. First and foremost: the Nigh...

The Empire Strikes Back (1980) started a Star Wars tradition of confusing and alienating audiences that has become pretty much synonymous...

Star Wars is the first blockbuster franchise I loved. Whether it was for lack of interest or because I preferred books, I didn't watc...

In Chapter 18 of Dracula , Bram Stoker offers a brief summary of the villain's identity: 'He must, indeed, have been that Voivode...

I don't know Francis Ford Coppola, obviously. But Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) suggests something about the director behind the pro...

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is apparently the shortest of Peter Jackson's Hobbit series, but had you told me it was twi...

For an Italian horror film released in 1976, Pupi Avati's The House with Laughing Windows ( La casa dalle finestre che ridono ) is a ...

Some things I enjoy now were acquired tastes. Horror, for example, I mostly disliked throughout my formative years. But I've loved glo...

There's probably no better testament to the iconic status of Thunder Road (1958) than the Bruce S pringsteen song of the same name. N...

Watching Fast & Furious 6 with friends a couple of nights ago inspired me to write up an earlier Paul Walker film that offers similar...

After Dracula made boatloads of cash in 1958, a sequel was a foregone conclusion. Initially, it was to be strictly formula. Both Christop...

Faced with the mythic stature of Hammer Film Productions in British pop culture, it's amusing to consider how little the company's...

By 1964 the historical epic was on its way out. In the United States Cleopatra , doomed by its stupendous cost and the scandal surrounding...