Michael Armstrong (Paul Newman) and his fiancée Sarah Sherman (Julie Andrews) find themselves on a luxurious vacation in Northwest Europe, staying in some of the most luxurious hotels and eating at the most expensive restaurants money can buy. The caveat is that Michael is a world-renowned physicist and an expert on nuclear warfare, having been…

The thriller genre is one that often appears to occur on something of a binary scale, much like horror, its closest generic cousin – it is either derivative and plays upon a set of preordained ideals, or it is thoroughly unique, either having a highly original premise or an audacious execution to some more common…

Wynne (Jenny Agutter) is a precocious young woman whose personality reflects someone far older than her mere fifteen years. The adopted daughter of a working-class family, she is deeply in love with George (Bryan Marshall), her much older adoptive brother, whose mysterious attitude makes him even more irresistible to Wynne, who finds herself taken by…

One of my great blindspots in cinema has always been The Talented Mr. Ripley, a film that has always lurked omnipotent as something I knew I’d get around to eventually, but never felt much urgency to watch, as so much has been said about this film, despite the praise compounding with every passing review or…

I had a strange experience with The Good Liar, which exemplifies the perils of listening to the public discourse and allowing it to construct your opinions prior to seeing something. The Good Liar is a film that was met with such ambivalence upon release, it seemed almost contradictory to what I’d have hoped it would…

“There are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators” This powerful quote was written by Victor Hugo and appears in his seminal masterwork, Les Misérables. They’re also the final words of another piece that appropriates the title of Hugo’s novel, as well as some of its underlying themes…

Dick Blaney (Jon Finch) is a former member of the Royal Air Force who fought for his country during the war. His life afterwards has hardly been fitting for a war hero, as he has struggled to earn a living through low-paying jobs that he reluctantly accepts, solely for the sake of surviving in a…

The 1990s were certainly a strange time. Political tensions were at an all-time high, society was growing accustomed to a new set of standards, and the entertainment industry was growing more audacious. I can’t personally say that the 1990s produced the best films, but it would be wrong to suggest they didn’t make some of…

NOTE: This review contains spoilers. Should you decide to watch this tragedy of a film, beware that there is a certain plot development that just can’t be avoided when talking about this trash masterpiece. Towards the beginning of Serenity, Baker Dill (Matthew McConaughey) is in a bar. He is talking to some of his compatriots…

Upon viewing Spotlight on a Murderer (French: Pleins feux sur l’assassin), I realized something – no matter how original the idea, or how gorgeous the visual aesthetic, a film means nothing if it isn’t executed well. Georges Franju will forever have his name engraved in the canon of great artists purely because of his brilliant…