Christopher Saunders

LATEST ARTICLES ( 666 )

• A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

  

  Credit A Nightmare for Elm Street (1984) with one of the more inventive horror premises. In many ways, Wes Craven's signature movie is a standard issue... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die

  

  Tonino Valerii's A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972) is the sort of Spaghetti Western where the main draw is its over-elaborate English title. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Blow Out

  

  "Why the fuck does everything have to be a conspiracy?"Brian De Palma specialized in hyper-stylized pastiches of older movies, with varying degrees of success. Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ordinary People

  

  Robert Redford's Ordinary People (1980) is unjustly remembered for "stealing" Best Picture from Raging Bull. Certainly, Redford's directorial debut isn't an... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Child's Play (1988)

  

  Tom Holland's Child's Play (1988) spawned one of the most enduring slasher movie franchises: Brad Dourif's mass murdering doll Chucky continued terrorizing... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House

  

  It seems the perfect time for a fresh fictionalization of Watergate. Peter Landesman's Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017) was in... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Steven Universe: The Movie

  

  The 2010s have been a renaissance for Western Animation, with an extraordinary boom of cartoons geared towards both kids (Adventure Time, Gravity Falls, Over th... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Amityville Horror (1979)

  

  Stuart Rosenberg's The Amityville Horror (1979) is an utterly wretched exercise in "horror." Based on Jay Anson's dubiously "nonfiction" book, it employs every... Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Cotton Club

  

  (1984) must have seemed like asafe bet to Francis Ford Coppola after the nightmare of Apocalypse Now and his experimental One from the Heart and Rumble Fish. Read more

  Posted on 09 October 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• BlacKkKlansman

  

  Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman (2018) puts its director back into the cultural spotlight, winning him box office and acclaim (including a Best Picture nod) unseen... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Ragtime

  

  "I've spent my whole life forgetting. You're a young man. You better start learning now."Milos Forman's Ragtime (1981) commits to an insurmountable task: turnin... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Daniel

  

  Sidney Lumet's Daniel (1983) is a glum, curiously muted document. I use that word advisedly; it feels more like a docudrama than a narrative film, so devoid is... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2019 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Mary Queen of Scots (2018)

  

  Time again to revisit the rivalry between Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, already the subject of myriad films, novels, plays and most recently a television series. Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Petrified Forest

  

  "Certainly does feel great to have a real killer around here again!"Archie Mayo's The Petrified Forest (1936) is a curious film, a slow-burn crime drama that's... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Disobedience

  

  (2017) offers viewers a quiet, somber look at faith, fate and romance. Sebastian Lelio's movie skillfully weaves together disparate themes and characters into... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Blog is Back!

  

  So, we've returned. It's been nearly a year since my last film review, partly from lack of disinterest, partly because a variety of other projects have been... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• The Post

  

  Critics enjoy noting, to the point of tedium, Steven Spielberg's bifurcation between gee-whiz blockbusters and somber adult dramas. I'll go further: Spielberg... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• My Magnificent Octopus

  

  My apologies for allowing this blog to go dormant so long.For one, I haven't been watching a lot of movies lately due to my financial situation and time... Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2018 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Best & Worst Books Read in 2017

  

  Just a simple country blogger who doesn't know the finer ways of writingBroken record time: 2017 has been another frustrating year; I'm still searching for... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• A Majority of One

  

  Mervyn Leroy's A Majority of One (1961) offers an entertaining culture clash romance. Based on Leonard Spigelgass's successful play, it offers a sensitive,... Read more

  Posted on 18 October 2017 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES