“Body Double” hit me like a freight train, and it’s easy to see why: I’d argue that there’s never been another film that combines true formal mastery with quintessentially ’80s …

The “House of Games” big twist hit me like a left hook — and that was just at the end of the first act. Its world, a stripped-down modern-noir dreamscape, …

By Jason Hallock   You know it must be serious if you encourage the person you love to bring a possessed doll into the house overnight. I first met my …

By Jennifer Wydra   I was a cradle Catholic who attended Mass every Sunday. My family was on the larger side with four kids, though it often seemed more like …

By Kevin McMahon I f you were a boy in the 1950s, growing up in the New Jersey suburbs, and your middle-class family possessed a TV set — a tiny, …

‘I couldn’t deal with what I was seeing. I felt betrayed.’

Though we GenXers might look back  on our favorite ’80s films with some chagrin, “Parenthood” (1989) holds up.

The lights came on… Shock. Silence. “Oh man, we’re just working on a schlock low-budget Roger Corman sci-fi,” we thought.

It’s an all-time personal favorite. It was also the last movie I watched with my mom.

By Donna J. Choo I grew up in Hawai‘i, on the island of  O‘ahu, where my moviegoing love began at Queen’s Theater in Kaimuki, and the Waialae and Kailua Drive-ins. …