‘Jaws’: The Groundbreaking Summer Blockbuster that Changed Hollywood, and Our Summer Vacations, Forever
By Sven Mikulec It seems unbelievable, but it’s been 42 years since Steven Spielberg’s Jaws premiered in cinemas across…
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Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’: A Game-Changing Science-Fiction Classic
By Sven Mikulec Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner’s path to stardom and cultism has hardly been a bump-free ride. Heavily…
Ridley Scott’s Masterpiece ‘Alien’: Nothing Is as Terrifying as the Fear of the Unknown
If it weren’t for the calamity of the ill-fated Alexander Jodorowsky’s Dune project, in all likelihood the world would not…
“Bide Your Time and Everything Becomes Clear”: The Construction of Memory in Soderbergh’s ‘The Limey’
By Sven Mikulec From time to time, a film that is received less enthusiastically at the box office and…
‘Phantom of the Paradise’: De Palma’s Cult Horror Musical That Got Its Second Chance to Shine
In Brian De Palma’s entire career, his 1974 musical horror film Phantom of the Paradise is perhaps the one work…
‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’: Milos Forman’s Mosaic of Brilliance With a Lesson Still As Important As Ever
If you open any book on the history of film, you are bound to find a plethora of historically significant…
‘Psycho’: The Proto-Slasher that Brought On a Revolution in Cinema
The image of a shabby motel in the middle of nowhere, by-passed by any relevant roads and inhabited by disturbing,…
‘Frenzy’: Hitchcock’s Return to Perfection in His Penultimate Film
Having turned in a couple of ill-received films delving into the matters of political intrigue, Alfred Hitchcock went back to…
‘The Big Shave’: Scorsese’s Vision of Death and American Politics Set in a Bathroom
In 1967, young Martin Scorsese sent in a script to the Exprmntl festival of Knokke, Belgium, as the filmmakers who…
Sidney Lumet’s ‘Serpico’: One Honest Man’s Struggle Against the System
The legend has it, when Al Pacino asked Frank Serpico why he had blown the whistle on New York police…