5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (184+ words) These throwback titles deserve a second look. This cult Australian horror movie follows suburbanites who are unknowingly being used as test subjects for a drug that causes… well, just look at the title. It presents a cavalcade of gross-out effects…...

6+ day, 1+ min ago   (743+ words) The director behind El Mariachi, Spy Kids, and Alita: Battle Angel has eclectic influences. Let’s break those titles down one by one and see what we can learn from each of them. The first two titles that Robert Rodriguez shared…...

6+ day, 31+ min ago   (501+ words) It also lost out at the Oscars. Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds is one of the highest-ranked movies on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 best American thrillers. It landed at No. 7, below just two other Hitchcock movies, namely Psycho…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (371+ words) Tarantino loves pastiche and homage, and just taking stuff. I have been on a kick rewatching all the Quentin Tarantino movies, and of course, I am doing it in order, which means I started with the noisy Reservoir Dogs. It's…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (929+ words) Adam Argot on how the three-act structure descends from ritual anthropology. How do you attack and structure a story? Do you see the situation first? Do you have an image or set piece in mind? Or do you begin with…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (314+ words) Anthony Hopkins is great, but so is everything around him. After this moment, Lecter steps forward to read her credentials, which is the first time that he is shown in close-up, in full light. As it turns out, the camera…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (623+ words) A screenwriter-turned-novelist on the hidden structures behind every story you love. We are meaning-making, pattern-seeking, storytelling creatures. If you take nothing else from this column, remember that. THAT is the key that unlocks a writer's world. Clearly, we've evolved to…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (859+ words) Kojima once said he's "70% film." Here are 15 movies he's directly named as inspirations. Hideo Kojima is one of modern media's most unique creators. Known for his directing, writing, and video game creations, he builds entirely singular worlds spanning genres like…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (537+ words) It was overshadowed by Foster’s outstanding 1976. Ultimately, it makes sense why The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane would have slipped through the cracks. After all, it arrived smack-dab in the middle of what was probably the most important…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1047+ words) Travel into the trenches and across No Man's Land to tackle which movies captured the harrowing battlefield the best. Everything I learned about World War I comes from a Terry Deary Horrible Histories book and then a lot of movies....