Lee Daniels took Billie Holiday’s song “All of Me” as a challenge. His biopic, The United States vs. Billie Holiday, attempts to wrap every aspect of Lady Day’s life into a single film. Featuring a co...

Love and Monsters checks a few of my “I’m a sucker for” movie boxes. For instance, I’m a sucker for boy-and-his-dog stories. Movies that follow the friendship between a person and canine play my heart...

Whether or not you’re familiar with Manhunter, Michael Mann’s 1986 screen version of Thomas Harris’ first book to feature Hannibal Lecter, the 2002 adaptation of the same text, Red Dragon, must be see...

Hollywood couldn’t resist making a sequel to The Silence of the Lambs. After the 1991 film outperformed all box-office expectations and earned five Academy Awards, the opportunity cost of not making a...

Around the time an unsuspecting bum inadvertently urinates on another, causing the pee-victim to chop off the offending man’s penis, while at the same moment, not far away, a would-be rapist engages i...

George A. Romero’s critique of materialism in Dawn of the Dead (1978) likened zombies to mindless consumers, but Zack Snyder’s 2004 remake wipes away the original allegory and replaces it with freneti...

Bernini’s sculpture Ecstasy of Saint Teresa came to mind watching the extraordinary debut of writer-director Rose Glass, whose Saint Maud could be viewed as a monstrous horror film or a character stud...

Willy’s Wonderland belongs to a subgenre of movies with loglines like “Nicolas Cage fights a satanic cult with chainsaws” or “Nicolas Cage fights monsters from a fallen meteorite.” His presence sells ...

About 30 minutes into Drop Dead Gorgeous, I became aware of the expression on my face. It probably resembled something like that of the third judge of the movie’s teenage beauty pageant. Played by scr...