There is an observation in the last five minutes of “Romancing the Stone” that provides a great framework for the material that comes befo...

The earliest of many discoveries occurs during the first set of establishing shots, which utilize handheld camerawork and are coarse, soil...

For most filmmakers, the first 20 minutes of “Inglourious Basterds” would have been a revelatory accomplishment; for Quentin Tarantino, th...

A modest act of vision can instigate hard-fought wars within the film industry, and such battles are seldom resolved in the favor of direc...

“If it's in a word, or it's in a look, you can't get rid of ... The Babadook.” “The Babadook” is a work of implicit realizat...

Inside the mind of every teenage girl is a plethora of conflicting emotions struggling to find a meaningful balance. This is the narrative...

The conventional sense is that serial killer films must almost always deal in certainties. While the details and underlying motives will b...

There are two stories running parallel through the course of events in “Philadelphia”: one about a man dying of AIDS, and the other about ...

The wisdom of Ian Malcom’s chaos theory ought to have inspired more heeded warnings in the “Jurassic Park” films, but sometimes tragedies ...

The high-rise is essentially a character all its own, with corridors and rooms and vast galleries that seem to permeate an aura of superna...

The road is a long and unforgiving stretch of desert, linking barbaric societies that harvest the fundamental resources of a man’s ideal p...

It is the season preceding the outbreak of war across Europe, and a small community in the heart of the German countryside grapples with t...

The family at the heart of the original “ Poltergeist ” lost more than their sense of security in the wake of their encounters with vengef...

Two prominent thoughts are all that come to fruition during the course of “Avengers: Age of Ultron”: 1) a villain wants to destroy the wor...

Every suburban household, they say, shelters a conflict threatening to unravel the strength of the family unit. The characters in “Polterg...