Bad Boys stands out amongst the other American teen movies of 1983. While this benchmark year presented such classics as The Outsiders, Risky Business, and Rumble Fish, Bad Boys delivers a blow to the gut, a bloody snapshot of teenage delinquency and doomed futures. Pitched by producer Robert Solo as…

Brandon Cronenberg follows his debut feature, Antiviral, with an out-of-body bloodbath about skilled assassin Taysa Vos who uses brain-implant technology to possess other people’s bodies to commit murder. Ostensibly, these murders secure big corporate buyouts but regress Taysa mentally each time she returns. She often considers giving it all up…

I Saw Unhinged, The Personal History of David Copperfield, Tenet, and The New Mutants — I don’t know if movie theaters are open where you are. But in Tucson, Arizona, the indie chain Harkins opened its doors on August 28, Galaxy Theatres on September 3, and Cinemark on September 4. The last movie I watched in theaters before the pandemic hit was The Hunt on…

Advice for the newbie screenwriter navigating strange times. It’s 2019… And your girlfriend or boyfriend just cheated on you, so you decide to write a screenplay about it. You’re 24. Maybe you’re 30. You went to film school or possibly you didn’t. …

Here’s an unsung gem of a movie. If you’re a noir fan, The Last Seduction probably comes to mind as that 1994 arthouse film that won acclaim on HBO until a brief but memorable stint in cinemas led Roger Ebert to crown it one of the year’s best. …

It’s nice to revisit older films in the solitude of quarantine (what else is there to do?), and I couldn’t be happier to stumble upon this one on Starz. My knees weaken whenever I encounter a noir film online or witness one wedged between dusty DVDs at a record store…

Last year I saw 97 theatrical releases. This year I saw only 66. What the hell happened? I don’t know. Some of what I missed includes The Last Black Man in San Francisco, John Wick 3, 1917, Just Mercy, Dolemite is My Name, and The Two Popes. But here’s my…

The 2010s will bottom out in less than 48 hours, so to honor the great films that have been released within that time, I’d like to share my ten favorites from the last decade and invite you to share yours. They are: 10. Hereditary (2018); Director: Ari Aster

Dark Waters is a depressing, murky thriller directed by Todd Haynes and co-produced by star Mark Ruffalo. …