Christopher Fried

Pale Rider (1985)

Ruffian riders immediately overrun the peaceful scenery of old west California at the story’s start. Clint Eastwood drops the viewer […]

With a shocking heist and car chase, the film blasts the viewer into the action. This doesn’t let up

Though media and technology have advanced, the themes that David Cronenberg chooses to focus on in his 1983 film Videodrome

“Be afraid. Be very afraid.” These quoted words from The Fly resonate beyond the film. In fact, most people likely

Back in 1982, director Ridley Scott dropped the audience into the then-future world of 2019 Los Angeles. It’s a seedy

In recent years, I’ve seen a small backlash against the character Ferris Bueller. One sometimes hears the trite, overused buzzwords

Howard Deutch’s return to teen drama after Pretty in Pink shows him again in top form in his sophomore effort.

A common misconception is that John Hughes directed the romantic comedy Pretty in Pink. The famed director did serve as

In the spring of 1989, a film that was supposed to make waves in the creature feature genre

There’s no rest and relaxation for the terrorized couple featured in the tense 1989 Australian thriller Dead Calm. A time

What more can be said about this now-much praised film than has already been said? Very few films have gone

Alternate history allows a reader not only to contemplate the past. It also makes one think upon the current culture