What is creepy? Feel free to conjure up concrete examples. But think about the very definition of the word itself. What is creepy? [...]

Michael O’Shea’s savvy, self-conscious debut film, the microcosmic horror-drama The Transfiguration, will undoubtedly remind genre-astute viewers of other, more familiar films. Elements of [...]

Hollywood loves precocious kids: particularly the smart-ass ones, because they can always be relied upon to provide a cutting punchline in any family [...]

Japan remains one of the few nations on Earth to maintain a preference for homegrown film content. Local, Japanese-made films commonly outperform increasingly [...]

In Hollywood films generally come in one of two categories: the “high concept” (a film so simple and familiar that its entire plot [...]

In his own mind, Wilson is an optimist. He figures cavemen got by with little more than a roof over their head, and [...]

English author Julian Barnes (Flaubert’s Parrot, Arthur & George) finds his Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending on the receiving [...]

You can either fight against the melodramatic romance novel leanings of the B-list historical epic The Ottoman Lieutenant, or you can surrender to [...]

Horror films, at their best, have always served as a mirror for society’s most up-to-date fears. From the terror of atomic mutation in [...]

Among lovers of quality animation, the release of a new film from Japan’s legendary Studio Ghibli is always cause for celebration. The studio [...]