Falling Down (1993): the terminal velocity of hardship
Falling Down’s black / bleak comedy of modern life and city living
They do it with mirrors: The Others (2001) explained
Exploring the inverted Gothic horror of The Others
The Mosquito Coast (1986): the paradise delusion
An eccentric inventor flees the rat-race but carries his problems to paradise
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) at 30: this is a man’s world
Women in the dark, in the pit, and under the thumb