An unusual story of six young lives saved by cinema.…
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De Palma gives Hitchcock a morbid makeover.…
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Advertisements Brian De Palma’s Carrie is an anxious champion of cinematic storytelling. The film wastes no time tinkering with conventionalized scares, instead choosing to cultivate terror through the intimate examination of a tormented young woman and the unforgiving environment she’s forced to…
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Advertisements Adolescence is a sensitive period of human life. Weaving between childish dreams and the rigid fibers of reality can be joyful and carefree one moment, then quickly turn callous and unforgiving in the next. At the mercy of inexperience and vulnerability,…
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Advertisements The Night of the Hunter was renowned British actor Charles Laughton’s first and only undertaking as a film director. Met with indifference upon initial release in 1955, the film is now considered a landmark of American cinema. The unique fusion of…
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Advertisements Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven arrived at a time when audiences were slowly saying goodbye to classic and revisionist Westerns in favor of high-octane blockbusters driven by special effects. This makes it a perfect candidate to nail the coffin closed on September’s Horsepower Month…
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Advertisements It’s amazing how a city can come alive at night, pulsing with an electric vitality much like that of the human heart. Lights flicker in the sky and alongside busy streets like millions of curious, blinking eyes. Heavy traffic honks and…
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