Christopher Saunders

LATEST ARTICLES ( 667 )

• Forty Guns

  

  The Fifties saw myriad female-centric Westerns, usually off-the-wall pictures like Johnny Guitar (1954). Samuel Fuller's Forty Guns (1957) holds up better... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Bridges at Toko-Ri

  

  (1955) is a typical old school war movie. Director Mark Robson competently balances action and melodrama, in a movie remarkable mainly for its ending. Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Touch of Evil

  

  (1958) is the sort of oddball movie that delights cineastes while alienating everyone else. Orson Welles' film noir is a patchwork of brilliant direction,... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Groggy's Birthday and More Fritz Lang

  

  Groggy turned 26 today and celebrated with a new Moviepilot article synthesizing some recent writings/viewings: Fritz Lang's Anti-Nazi Films. Besides the... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Cloak and Dagger

  

  Usually ranked among Fritz Lang's worst movies, Cloak and Dagger (1946) is highly entertaining. Critics lament the film's studio-imposed censorship: it's still... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ministry of Fear

  

  (1944) is Fritz Lang's best anti-Nazi film. More streamlined than Man Hunt and less scalding than Hangmen Also Die!, it benefits from emphasizing thriller... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Birds

  

  Alfred Hitchcock enjoyed crafting art films within established genres. Psycho (1960) is a warped character study disguised as a B Movie. Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Carrie (2013)

  

  Stephen King's Carrie inspired one successful film, so why not a remake? That's probably the only thought anyone put into tonight's monumental mediocrity. Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Groggy on Moviepilot: The Charge of the Light Brigade, Redux

  

  Groggy, if you look before you, you'll see neither audience nor page views. The usefulness of such an article eludes me!Groggy revisits an old favorite, yet... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Carrie (1976)

  

  Brian De Palma scored his breakthrough with Carrie (1976), a flashy adaptation of Stephen King's novel. This supernatural study of adolescent angst makes a... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• If...

  

  Lindsay Anderson started as a critic, co-founded the Free Cinema Movement and debuted with This Sporting Life (1963). That film's Expressionist touches soon... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Theatre of Blood

  

  (1973) is a unique Shakespearean slasher movie. Vincent Price considered this his favorite role, infusing his classical stage training into a typically... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Opera

  

  Horror fans consider Opera (1987) one of Dario Argento's masterworks, yet it showcases his worst tendencies. While providing a surfeit of stylish slayings,... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Shadow of the Vampire

  

  An uneven black comedy, E. Elias Merhige's Shadow of the Vampire (2000) depicts the filming of Nosferatu as a battle of wills between artist and monster. Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Elephant Man

  

  After his mind-screw Eraserhead (1976), David Lynch tackled a more commercial project. The Elephant Man (1980) is a compassionate monster movie starring a human. Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

  

  shows that remakes work best by deviating from the source material. Philip Kaufman respects Don Siegel's original (and Jack Finney's novel) while putting a... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case

  

  The '70s were a boom time for TV crime dramas: Helter Skelter, The Legend of Lizzie Borden and The Marcus-Nelson Murders hold up well decades later. Buzz... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Gone Girl

  

  David Fincher enjoys plot twists more than M. Night Shymalan. At first glance, Gone Girl (2014) seems a return to the days of The Game and Fight Club, an... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Groggy On Moviepilot: Revisiting Victim

  

  I'd been preparing a Moviepilot article on Basil Dearden's Victim (1961) for over a month, and finally published it tonight. I've written about this movie befor... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Browning Version (1994)

  

  Terence Rattigan's The Browning Version has inspired several films, but the 1951 version with Michael Redgrave remains the classic. Mike Figgis's 1994 remake... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2014 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES