When choosing the films I’m going to highlight during this project I can occasionally feel a bit of guilt when I choose the most obvious option. There’s a certain expectation that I should try to find something of a deep-cut, a movie that doesn’t get talked about […]
Folks, now that we’ve reached the late-40s here on the Cinematic Century, you’re going to have to get ready to talk about Alfred Hitchcock all the damn time. I love Hitchcock’s films. The man is very problematic, but the films he created are some of the finest […]
Tension is a difficult thing to master in movies. One of the biggest problems I had with Hardcore Henry was the fact that it was basically non-stop violence with nothing holding it up. You can’t start a movie at full blast, just opening up with murder and […]