‘Trap’ Can’t Beat Filmmaker’s Bum Rap

The first half or so of Trap reminds me of what Alfred Hitchcock would do in showing us a bad guy racing against time to prevent or retrieve something. In his 1972 movie Frenzy, Barry Foster playing a serial killer finds himself in the back of a potato truck trying to retrieve a tie pinContinue reading “‘Trap’ Can’t Beat Filmmaker’s Bum Rap”

‘The Watchers’ Shouldn’t Be Seen

M. Night Shyamalan went from being one of the hottest filmmakers people were watching in 2000. Yet by 2010, he was mostly a joke thanks in part to a gag on Robot Chicken where he is is parodying with the catchphrase, “What a twist!” Yet some filmmakers have hits and misses. It happens to everyoneContinue reading “‘The Watchers’ Shouldn’t Be Seen”