Have you ever wanted to watch a film starring Roy Scheider as a spy who loses his wife in a shootout, then becomes embroiled in a serial murder plot involving an ancient Jewish brothel? Well, friend, have I got the movie for you.

It’s often said that politics make for strange bedfellows, but they can make for some fairly strange movies, too.

With most organized crime movies, you go in knowing you’re going to be served a heightened version of reality, whether it’s a story that glamorizes the lifestyle or further darkens…

For a movie that’s largely faded from mainstream memory, Blue Collar has an awful lot going for it. It marked the directorial debut of Paul Schrader, for starters — after…

When first outlining the “rules” of Some Guy Cinema, I kind of skirted around something that I’ve since come to adopt as a core ingredient of this type of film,…

As the father of two teenagers, I’m often blessed with the opportunity to introduce them — unwillingly, mind you — to various pop culture artifacts under the guise of showing…

Cinema is essentially a storytelling medium, so when we talk about movies and their relative merits, we often tend to focus on how well they tell their stories, or whether…

There’s no real rhyme or reason to the way I choose movies to cover for this series, and there are only seven different types of stories, so it’s probably only…

Walter Matthau turned typecasting into a virtue, making the most of his pigeonhole by using his character type to play a sneakily wide variety of roles.

In general these days when writing about pop culture, I come to praise, not to bury. Still, I find that failure is often more interesting to explore than success —…