The Weekly Listicle: There Goes The Neighborhood
August 30, 2025Forget good fences, and forget good neighbors. Characters in movies and television are far more compelling...
Book Review: The Craigslist Murders by Brenda Cullerton
August 27, 2025An interior “desecrator” who despises the bored super-rich housewives who can afford her services, she lives...
In Case You Missed… Christopher Smith’s Black Death
August 20, 2025Most movies like Black Death exploit the historical context to take shots at organized religion with...
The Weekly Listicle: A Question Of Identity
July 17, 2025Identity is a wonderful device for deception and suspense in storytelling. In some cases a whole...
The Weekly Listicle: Ballad Of The Soldier
July 9, 2025This weekend, Peter Weir graces us with The Way Back, a tale of daring escape by...
Book Review: The Sherlockian< by Graham Moore
July 8, 2025There is a telling scene in the novel, when Conan Doyle visits the theatre managed by...
Book Review: Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
July 4, 2025Whatever her faults, you can’t criticise Patricia Cornwell for sticking in a rut. Port Mortuary, her...
Brighton Rock Rises Again. Graham Greene Abides.
July 4, 2025Acclaimed screenwriter Rowan Joffé will try his hand at the directing game next year. For his...
A Watchful Eye On… Sherlock Holmes
July 2, 2025Sherlock Holmes as a strict Victorian period piece is over and done with, but the character...
Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 2: North By Northwest Revisited
June 19, 2025I got myself a videotape of Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest at a young age, and...




