Jacques Tourneur

THE COCKTAIL The Zombie THE KEY This high-octane rumfest should be imbibed gingerly, unless you want to take on a true Halloween appearance. It just creeps up on you. The choice of juices can vary. Passion fruit adds diversion. Pineapple: basic....

These days a lot of film buffs have snagged book contracts by throwing together random lists and goofy riffs on their favorite lowbrow genres. They're fun to read, but a waste of space on a bookshelf. At first glance, "Zombie Movies: The Ultimate Guide"...

Today, Andrew Breitbart and David Ehrenstein discuss what role filmmakers should and do play in the domestic debate. Yesterday, they pondered the fall season of antiwar flicks. Later in the week they'll attempt to define Hollywood values, locate Hollywood...

A new "Tales from the Crypt" movie feels like an echo of another time, doesn't it? A time, perhaps, when HBO was just an expensive movie channel rather than the most respected producer of TV drama on the block; a world where a puppet could drop terrible...

It's Hammer time as the American Cinematheque celebrates "The Golden Age of British Horror, 1955-1975." For two decades, Hammer Film Productions, along with other British purveyors of terror, such as Anglo-Amalgamated, Amicus, Independent Artists and...

Nobody writes songs about January in Paris. It's cold and bleak, and the impenetrable rain clouds make 8 a.m. as dark as midnight. It's perfect weather for going to the movies, which is what I do. But I also go to the movies in Paris in April, May and...

At first glance, director David Twohy's "Below" has the makings of a B-movie horror classic. Somewhere in the Atlantic during the Second World War, the crew of the U.S. ship Tiger Shark happens across three survivors from a downed British ship. Among...

1. SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Alfred Hitchcock; 1943) 4 stars A charming, beautifully written small-town psychological thriller about two people named Charlie: an idealistic young girl (Teresa Wright) and her suave, worldly uncle (Joseph Cotten), whom she...