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Film review: Untraceable

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:17:22 -0500

In this unsavory cyber-thriller, a serial killer with a website does his grisly business one hit at a time.

Film review: Hitman

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:09:37 -0500

A video-game adaptation from the screenwriter of Swordfish offers guns, boobs, and not a hint of brains.

Interview: William Friedkin

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:01:23 -0400

The director of The Exorcist, The French Connection, and Cruising talks about controversies and casting, plus the reasons he doesn't watch modern movies.

Feature: Back Into The Night: How Superbad Recalls The Restless Soul Of '80s American Movies

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:01:04 -0400

What Michael Cera and Jonah Hill have in common with Griffin Dunne and Jeff Daniels.

DVD review: The Manhattan Project

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 15:02:05 -0400

While adults were still fighting the Cold War, the younger generation was fretting over nuclear catastrophe in '80s films like this.

DVD review: To Catch A Thief: Collector's Edition

Wed, 30 May 2007 13:07:26 -0400

With impossibly beautiful stars Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in the lead, director Alfred Hitchcock pulled off this heist thriller with effortless aplomb.

Film review: Civic Duty

Thu, 03 May 2007 18:05:44 -0400

A paranoid Peter Krause suspects his neighbor is up to no good in a thriller in which too much is exactly how it seems.

DVD review: The Mario Bava Collection, Volume 1

Wed, 02 May 2007 12:49:31 -0400

A new anthology of work by the Italian genre master often suggests what might have happened if Val Lewton and Alfred Hitchcock ever teamed up.

Film review: Next

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:30:49 -0400

Nicolas Cage can see two minutes into the future in this confusing thriller, but the actor apparently lacks the foresight to keep his career from going off the rails.

Film review: Fracture

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:17:41 -0400

When a man shoots his wife in the head and confesses, it seems like a closed case. But when that man is Anthony Hopkins, it's another story.