Movie Review: “Rear Window”
Of the millions of people who saw last year’s featherweight Shia LaBeouf suspense hit “Disturbia,”…
Author Bob Westal
Movie Review: “Vertigo”
“Psycho” and “The Birds” launched the modern horror film; “The 39 Steps” helped set the…
Movie Review: “Touch of Evil”
It might be a cinephile touchstone from Orson Welles, the most hallowed of all Hollywood…
Movie Review: “Brotherhood of the Wolf”
Without a doubt, the strangest thing about this lavish, six-year-old international cult hit (an eccentric…
Movie Review: “Moonstruck”
In line with the conceit that it’s something like an opera, the original cut of…
Movie Review: “High Noon”
A masterfully efficient thriller and the single most parodied Western of all time, “High Noon”…
Movie Review: “Heat”
Since its release, “Heat” has only grown more popular among fans of ultra-macho action and…
Movie Review: “Reprise”
There’s a truism that while many movies have writers as main characters, no film can…
Movie Review: “Blast of Silence”
“Blast of Silence” isn’t that great of a movie. At its best, however, this unusual…
Movie Review: “Chapter 27”
It says something that more than 27 years after the murder of John Lennon, the…