These three films chart one of the most meteoric career rises in Hollywood history.
The film communicates its feminist ideas through fascinatingly fetishistic images.
The film handily invokes the campiness of the iconic Disneyland attraction, if not its kinetics.
The show’s second season is structured less around storylines than around feelings.
We’re having a lot of déjà vu this year.
For a while, the film feels more like a supervillain origin story than a traditional slasher.
This set will be a must-buy for completists, but it may be too light on extras for everyone else.
The film works magic by embracing excess, finding a kind of harmony and possibility within it.
As far as improvements go, Michael Myers’s revitalized brutality is arguably the only successful one that Halloween Kills makes.
An exhaustive array of special features helps make up for a merely adequate audio-visual presentation of this Hitchcockian Ozploitation gem.
Rian Johnson’s film revives the comic whodunit, a la Clue, for an era of especially heightened class consciousness.
The film is a cynical critique of American foreign policy wrapped up in an uncluttered narrative that thrives on pulpy thrills.
The Fog is pivotal to the cementing of director John Carpenter’s aesthetic.
There’s barely a single scare in this Halloween that isn’t undermined by some forced bit of funniness,
For all its references to the show’s history, the film never panders.
All of them have earned their right to be here, either by standing on the shoulders of giants or wildly impaling creatures of the night.
Sadly, Halloween: H20 has nothing to do with water.
The 35th anniversary Blu-ray release of Halloween will do the job until the inevitable 40th, 45th, and 50th anniversary releases.
The extras on this DVD edition are compromised of a mixture of the old and new that should offer a little something for everyone.
Monty Python was arguably the most versatile of comic troupes.