THE POLAR EXPRESS
This 2004 movie has problems, but it’s still the most interesting entry in director Robert Zemeckis’ post-2000 filmography
A BILTMORE CHRISTMAS
A shocker: a Hallmark Channel Christmas movie that’s actually good (and not so-bad-it’s-good)
INTERROGATION
This politically minded 1982 film has assumed legendary status in its native Poland, but for American viewers its allure is much simpler: it fits quite snugly into the Women in Prison subgenre
GO AND GET IT
No, it wasn’t the “first” man-in-a-monkey suit film, but this 1920 programmer was quite the oddity
THE SUBSTANCE
Body horror and Hollywood: a true match made in Hell.
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984)
It’s no longer the mind-blower it once was, but Wes Craven’s 1984 classic remains an attention-getter
THE COFFEE TABLE
2024’s major shock-fest, containing all the things that make Spanish horror great
HAPPINESS
A 1998 film that in its pitiless depictions of loneliness, jealousy and boredom is more relevant to the iPhone age than the time in which it was made
MONSIEUR ROBERT HOUDIN
Those wanting a straight biographical portrait of the legendary French magician Robert Houdin should probably avoid this 1966 telefilm, whose treatment is far from orthodox
THE DOOR IN THE WALL
An H.G. Wells adaptation that offered up a new, and never again utilized, innovation: The Dynamic Frame, in which the aspect ratio is shifted to serve “the dramatic needs of the story”