Robert Altman is one of those directors who created his own rules and visual language, and asked you to come with him on a journey and to embrace them.

When you encounter an auteur like that, it's kind of hard to believe they watched other movies or even took any influence from them. His voice was so singular and unique, but of course, he had to learn everything by watching movies, just like…

There's this old saying that I think is really important to remember, and it goes something like "To be an overnight sensation in Hollywood, you usually have to work your ass off first."

And that's kind of exactly how we got the meteoric rise of Curry Barker.

If you haven’t been tracking the box office over the last couple of weeks, Barker’s psychological horror thriller, _Obsession_ , is…

It’s been 35 years since Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs swept the Oscars, and no matter when I scroll past it on TV or see it pop up on streaming, I have to watch it.

That movie sucks you into a dark mystery, one with so many clues and ideas that it forces you to lean in and discover stuff you may never have seen before.

You can watch it over and over and take away more stuff…