Movie Review: ‘FRANKƐN5TƐ1N’

[Minor Spoilers Ahead] You know what Bernard Rose’s FRANKƐN5TƐ1N — the latest in a long line of modern adaptations of Mary Shelley’s immortal novel — could use? A thick coating of 1970s film grain. As I tried to gather my thoughts…

Out of the Past: “The Maltese Falcon” (1941)

It is not made of gold or bedazzled by jewels; if you saw it in a pawn shop you wouldn’t give it a second glance. But, it is the stuff that dreams are made of and worth its weight in…

The Film Canon: Godzilla (1954)

Before the sequels, before the reboots, before the television shows, the action figures, the video games, and its canonization as a bona fide pop culture icon, Godzilla was just a monster. A lumbering 164-foot tall beast of rage and eradication,…

The Film Canon: Frankenstein (1931)

Dracula was a demon, the Invisible Man a maniac, and Gill-man a literal monster. The Mummy killed to possess, the Wolf Man for lack of control. But Frankenstein’s Monster killed for the simple reason than he didn’t know any better.…