Films

Top Ten On the Run Stories The road tale is one of the oldest genres of stories there are, going at least as far back as The Odyssey. But there’s a subset that we might […]

Trying to select the ten best films featuring costumes designed by Edith Head verges on the impossible. Even she lost track of how many films she’d worked on. She began her career in the 1920s […]

Top Ten Great Escapes in Novels and Films I think I’ll be forever drawn to stories about people escaping captivity, no matter their circumstance, because they are fueled by the primal instinct to be free. The best of […]

The Ten Best Movie Thrillers It seems to be a universal truth that thriller lovers will take their thrills in any medium available, whether it’s books, television, or movies. When you don’t have a week […]

Top Ten James Bond Villains As a college kid, I celebrated the end of exams by binge-watching James Bond movies, with a select group of equally passionate friends and a gluttonous order of Chinese takeout. […]

Top Ten Crime Films that won the Oscar For Best PictureI know the Oscars seem to last forever, can be unforgivably corny, and those speeches or intros where celebs read from tele-prompters kind of make […]

Reel Crimes, Real Crimes “Have you reached a verdict?”“We have, Your Honor.”“Okay, cut.” The camera stops shooting at the director’s command, the jurors stretch and study the next scene, and the judge jumps up and […]

On meeting the creator of The Exorcist Years ago when I was squeaking through high school, I went with friends to see the movie the whole world was talking about: The Exorcist. As a former altar […]