Rope 

Brandon and Phillip (John Dall, Farley Granger) strangle a former classmate to death and hide his body in a wooden chest in their apartment, moments before hosting a party where…

High and Low 

When his driver's little boy is kidnapped, wealthy businessman Kingo Gondo (Toshiro Mifune) has to decide if he's willing to put his entire career and fortune at stake to save…

Gravity: More Science, Less Hollywood

Sandra Bullock. Photo: Warner Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist and the most famous person working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, was surprised the other day to…

Man from Majorca: Lawless City

Sven Wollter and Tomas von Brömssen. Photo: SF This film would make a good double bill together with Call Girl (2012). Sharing a similar look, they would appeal to an…

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

David Lynch wasn't ready to let Twin Peaks go after the first two seasons, which is why he made this prequel that follows murder victim Laura Palmer's (Sheryl Lee) last…

Notorious: Spy Games

Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Photo: RKO In the mid-1940s, the legendary Hollywood producer David O. Selznick had plenty of opinions about the casting of Alfred Hitchcock's upcoming thriller Notorious.…

Death on the Nile 

While traveling on the Nile on board the riverboat Karnak, Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) passes time solving the murder of a young, female passenger. Meticulously staged in terms of costumes…

Death of a Pilgrim 

Lars Martin Johansson (Rolf Lassgård), head of the Swedish National Criminal Investigation Department, discreetly gathers a suitable group of detectives, aiming to take a fresh, comprehensive look at the 1986…

The Stepfather: Terror in Pink

Jill Schoelen, Terry O'Quinn and Shelley Hack. Photo: New Century Vista Film Company In June 1989, FBI agents arrested an accountant by the name of Bob Clark in Virginia. A…

Hannibal Rising

In 1944, young Hannibal Lecter survives the horrors of war in his native Lithuania and spends the next decade hunting (and punishing) the men who hurt his sister. The fifth…