Friends of the Gutter Mike White, Beth Accomando and Walter Chaw gather on The Projection Booth Podcast to discuss Walter Hill’s The Driver (1978). “Noirvember 2025 roars to life with Walter Hill’s sleek, existential chase film The Driver (1978). Ryan O’Neal plays the nameless getaway specialist who moves […]
At Decider, Walter Chaw breaks down 25 great films fro the 21st Century! “A quarter century into the new millennium and what better opportunity to chart the 25 best horror films during that span? New classics, updates or sequels to old classics, and a few curveballs to round […]
At RogerEbert.com, Walter Chaw writes a lovely essay on his personal response to John Carpenter’s Starman (1984): “John Carpenter’s Starman has lodged itself in my consciousness since I first saw it in 1984. I was eleven that Christmas, and there has not been a year in the last […]
At the Denver Public Library’s Saturday Afternoon Film Discussion, “Actor, director and producer Alex Winter (act. Bill & Ted film series; act. The Lost Boys; dir. Zappa) joined film critic Walter Chaw on December 5th 2020 to discuss Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1953 haunting masterpiece, Ugetsu.” Watch here.
At Film Freak Central, Walter Chaw watches Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu (USA, 2024) with David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method (Canada, 2011). “Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu is another shot at the same topic, using not a ghost haunting us from the past as a metaphor for the libidinous violence of men […]
At Film Freak Central, Walter Chaw has a magnificent piece on Oz Perkins’ Longlegs (2024) and on Perkins as a director. “Thematically, at least, Oz Perkins reminds me most of Sofia Coppola, in that all of his films are autobiographical examinations of the relationship between isolated, creative, depressed […]
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