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Alfred Hitchcock once admitted that “33 percent of the effect” of his thriller “Psycho” (1960) was due to composer Bernard Herrmann’s revolutionary score. Director Matt Schrader probably would up that amount to at least 50 percent....

Dying is easy, comedy is hard, as the saying goes. A comedy in which someone dies—specifically, a male stripper at a bachelorette party that goes horribly wrong—is an especially tricky feat that “Rough Night” never quite...

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Over the past few years, the stellar British-born actress Sally Hawkins has been working steadily, but it’s been quite a while since she’s gotten a role that allowed her to steer a whole movie the way...

I had the pleasure of interviewing George Lepauw, the renowned concert pianist and Executive Director of CIMMfest, the Chicago International Movies and Music Festival. Lepauw told me that his festival aims to illuminate the relationship between...

Syfy’s new series “Blood Drive” boasts what you call a very tempting premise—a cross-country death race where the cars are fueled by human blood. It owes more than a wink to grindhouse classic “Death Race 2000,”...

I’ve always been a sucker for mysteries that use their locations as not just backdrops but practically as characters in the narrative. Think about how David Lynch used the Pacific Northwest in the first season of...

Two of the best roles in the career of Lea Thompson revolve around characters who are haunted by their past. The first is a film practically everyone knows: Robert Zemeckis’ 1985 classic, “Back to the Future,”...

We are pleased to feature an excerpt from the June 2017 edition of the online magazine Bright Wall/Dark Room, which is focused on the concept of The Hero’s Journey on film. Along with this essay by Kelsey Ford about...

You may have heard that the 19-film competition line-up at Cannes this year included two films to which Netflix owns the rights and that Netflix, in its corporate wisdom, decided will be shown exclusively via Netflix...