I've been hard on Christopher Nolan for years. Not because I ever questioned his intelligence—few filmmakers working today possess his technical command or his appetite for spectacle—but because I often feel like I'm admiring  ...

Certainly not by mistake, Young Washington arrives at an absolutely perfect moment. America is celebrating its 250th anniversary, and Angel Studios—the crowd-funding outfit best known for distributing and producing  ...

James Whale. Boris Karloff. The year after Frankenstein was released. Need I say anything more about why, even today, The Old Dark House absolutely slaughters its audience? The tension and the creep factor are ratcheted ...

I first saw Dario Argento's Phenomena when it was released here in the United States as Creepers. That version—heavily edited by nearly 30 minutes (for no other reason than to save Americans from actually thinking)—was essentially ...

There is nothing predictable about Brandon Sanders, and Lasting Impression follows suit. Long before he found his calling behind a drum kit, Sanders was crashing the boards as a basketball player at the University of Kansas and ...

Synapse Films' 4K UHD release of Suspiria is a work of pure art. It is also important and impactful, belonging in a time capsule and in every serious horror collection. Years after its original release, this restoration remains one ...

Because fear doesn't always come from the sky. Science fiction often promises spectacle. The Outer Threat goes the opposite direction, shrinking its scope until the greatest mystery isn't what's happening above us but what ...

By the time The Night Album reached its final notes, I'd forgotten I was supposed to be reviewing it. My notebook had gone untouched, the wine glass was nearly empty, and somewhere along the way Andrew Dobson—better ...