There Be Dinosaurs. Freeline Media critic Mike Fried reflects back on the Jurassic Park franchise - good, bad & ugly.

The Sound of Rebellion in American Hot Wax. Freeline Media critic Milan Paurich reviews what he views as the greatest rock ...

This ten-part personal essay on iconic director Alfred Hitchcock’s Marnie was part of Maddy’s Third Master of Suspense Blogathon. Click here for the site in general, which is called Classic Film and ...

Ishirō Honda, to me, is one of the greatest unsung heroes of cinema. He was a Japanese filmmaker who directed 46 feature films in a career spanning five decades and was the most successful Japanese ...

It’s such a glorious decade. Between cheesy entertainment of the highest order to bonafide classics, the 1950s was the last real decade of “‘”Old Hollywood,” but also a decade when upstarts like ...

Editor’s Note: Joseph Aisenberg, the noted author of Brian de Palma’s Carrie: Studies In the Horror Film, has some thoughts of cinema and why we love movies, as seen through the film criticism of ...

The (based on a) true story of Tony Kiritsis’s 1977 hostage situation in Indianapolis starts when he has a meeting with a mortgage broker, M.L. Hall but is met instead by his son, Richard, because ...

Toho Studios has a long and varied career, not only known as the studio that produced and distributed Godzilla (1954) and all of its progeny but also the studio that produced many of the world’s ...

SPOILER: IF YOU DO NOT LIKE SUPERHERO MOVIES, YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN’T BE READING THIS CLASSY AND ERUDITE PIECE OF PROSE. This is the second movie in two days that I watched that had Tom Holland and ...

David Koepp has been such a compelling screenwriter (especially of late) so when one of his title cards say “PAY ATTENTION: THIS SHIT IS REAL,” you’d better pay attention. When Skylab crashed to the ...

The first ever summer blockbuster movie, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975), had its basis in the Peter Benchley bestselling novel of the same name, published a year earlier. It was almost as much a ...

This ten-part personal essay on iconic director Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is part of Maddy’s Second Master of Suspense Blogathon. Click here to view the blog entry and here for the site in general, ...