Hitchcock has three filmmaking gears: coasting, locked-in, and getting weird.
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To Catch a Thief (1955)
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Revisited: Rope (1948)
I have a rule of thumb that Alfred Hitchcock movies must be watched twice to be properly appreciated.
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Jason X (2001)
Whenever a franchise hits its tenth entry, you run out of sane entry points for thinking about the film as a total package.
Dan and Brian lean into fall nostalgia by looking at a high school football comedy that stuck with Dan when he was a teen.
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The Bad Guys 2 (2025)
You may remember The Bad Guys as DreamWorks Animation’s cross-species stab at introducing kids to heist movie tropes.
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Psycho (1960)
In his famous essay “An Introduction to the American Horror Film,” critic Robin Wood defined the genre
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Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
When one hears the title Honey, I Blew Up the Kid, the mind naturally wanders to a more macabre and grotesque image than what the film actually offers.
In the spirit of autumnal decay and ren faire dress-up, Brian shares with Dan a formative TV movie, the two-part Merlin starring Sam Neill.
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is maybe the most VHS-core movie of all time, an early ‘90s family movie night staple.
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Them! (1954)
Them! begins as a ghost story in the desert: a mute little girl ambles down the dusty road in shock, haunted by some frightening sight she can’t even speak of.