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Carpenter Movie Reviews
Blog Posts That Mention Carpenter
DVD/Blu-Ray
All is Well in Our World: On Todd Haynes’ “Safe”
Features
Male Directors Can’t Stop Making Movies About Female Pop Stars
TV/Streaming
Disney+ Brings Back “The Muppet Show” For a Clever, Nostalgic Event Episode
DVD/Blu-Ray
Home Entertainment Guide November 2025: “Familiar Touch,” “Eyes Wide Shut,” “Splitsville”
TV/Streaming
Showtime’s “Dexter: Resurrection” Keeps the Killer Thriller Franchise’s Blood Flowing
Chaz at Cannes
Cannes 2025 Video #7: Critics’ Roundtable
DVD/Blu-Ray
How to Be Human: A Personal Response to John Carpenter’s “Starman,” Now in 4K
TV/Streaming
What to Watch on Netflix: March 2025
TV/Streaming
10 Great Horror Films from 2024 (and Where to Watch Them)
Video Games
Classic Horror Characters Get Arcade Treatment in Clever “RetroRealms”
Interviews
Justin Baldoni Wants You to Believe
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: July 2024
Features
The Future Was Now Warps Through the Seminal Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
Interviews
All About Suspense: Damian Mc Carthy on Oddity
Festivals & Awards
DC/DOX — Washington DC’s Documentary Film Festival in its Second Year
MZS
Roger Corman’s Greatest Legacy Was Giving So Many People Their Big Break
MZS
Dear Tim Cook: Be a Decent Human Being and Delete this Revolting Apple Ad
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2024: I Saw the TV Glow, Thelma, Freaky Tales
Features
Coffee Table Books on The Wicker Man and Halloween Should Satisfy Horror Fans
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: October 2023
TV/Streaming
John Carpenter Returns with Peacock Project That Doesn’t Deserve His Name
TV/Streaming
Second Sight Releases Stellar 4K Versions of Crimes of the Future, It Follows
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2023: The Teachers’ Lounge, The Dead Don’t Hurt, Dream Scenario
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2023: 20 World Premieres We Can’t Wait to See
Video Games
Texas Chain Saw Massacre Game is a Promising Tribute to the Bloody Original
Interviews
Rite of Passage: Danny and Michael Philippou on Talk to Me
Black Writers Week
What Now: The Creative Potential in the End of the Superhero Craze
TV/Streaming
The Walking Dead: Dead City Trudges Through the Ruins of a Moribund Franchise
Features
Annihilation and the Power of Anxiety
Festivals & Awards
Angela Bassett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson Feted at SBIFF 2023
Features
Isaac Feldberg’s Overlooked Films of 2022
Festivals & Awards
Stay Weird: Highlights of the 2022 Fantastic Fest
Festivals & Awards
SXSW 2022: Slash/Back, Soft & Quiet, Nika
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2022: Master, Emergency, 892
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: December 2021, New Releases
Interviews
Defying Gravity: Dante Basco, Caroline Goodall, James V. Hart, Charlie Korsmo and More on the Thirtieth Anniversary of Hook
TV/Streaming
Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter Are the Old Blood That Enlivens Dexter: New Blood
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: Horror Edition
Festivals & Awards
A Preview of the 57th Chicago International Film Festival
MZS
The Unloved, Part 94: The Phantom of the Opera
TV/Streaming
First Four Laika Releases Get Special Edition Blu-rays
Festivals & Awards
Telluride Film Festival 2021: Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, The Velvet Underground, Bernstein’s Wall
Features
Book Review: Underexposed! The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made Presents Fascinating Alternate History
Features
Breaking In: On the 40th Anniversary of Tangerine Dream’s Thief Score
Features
Book Excerpt: Cinemaphagy: On the Psychedelic Classical Form of Tobe Hooper by Scout Tafoya
TV/Streaming
CBS’s Clarice Dilutes the Sprawling Strangeness of Its Source
Interviews
Unearthing Skeletons: John Carpenter on Lost Themes III and Scoring Halloween
TV/Streaming
HBO Max’s The Head is Chilling Escapist TV
Tributes
Hal Holbrook: 1925-2021
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2021: Passing, Eight for Silver, Mass
TV/Streaming
Entertaining 30 Coins Examines Depths of Evil with Style
Festivals & Awards
Ebert Symposium 2020: Part 3 Streaming Today, November 5th, 2020
Far Flungers
Why The Thing is One of the Most Effective Horror Movies Ever Made
TV/Streaming
The Right Stuff is an Unexpectedly Gripping Workplace Drama About the Space Race
Festivals & Awards
Fantasia 2020: Come True, The Dark and the Wicked, Time of Moulting, Unearth
Tributes
Wilford Brimley: 1934-2020
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: July 23, 2020
Tributes
Ennio Morricone: 1928-2020
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: April 2, 2020
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2020: Summertime, The Painter and the Thief
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Guide: January 9, 2020
Interviews
A Language Possessed and Reconquered: Mati Diop on Atlantics
Festivals & Awards
TIFF 2019: Atlantics, Bacurau, Zombi Child
MZS
Son of the father: Peter Fonda, 1940-2019
MZS
30 Minutes On: “Prometheus”
Interviews
From Blue Velvet to Top Gun: J. Hoberman on Movie Culture in the Reagan Era
TV/Streaming
Stranger Things Returns with Phenomenally Entertaining Third Season
Festivals & Awards
Preview of the 26th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival
Features
Thumbnails Special Edition: Our Cannes 2019 Coverage
TV/Streaming
DC Universe’s Swamp Thing Struggles to Manage Tone Amidst Flashes of Brilliance
Festivals & Awards
Cannes 2019: Sorry We Missed You
Festivals & Awards
Chicago Critics Film Festival Announces Full Schedule, Special Guests
Festivals & Awards
A Look Back at the 10th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival
Features
Larry Cohen: 1941-2019
Interviews
S. Craig Zahler on Dragged Across Concrete, Casting Mel Gibson, His Writing Process and More
Interviews
Jonathan Rosenbaum on His New Book Collection, Cinematic Encounters
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: December 27, 2018
MZS
The Big Five-Oh: A Moviegoing Remembrance
Features
25 Underrated Horror Films For Halloween
Far Flungers
Once Upon a Time in Haddonfield: Revisiting John Carpenter’s Halloween
Festivals & Awards
RIFF 2018: Phoenix, Styx
Features
Great Movies Return to the Big Screen at Music Box’s 70mm Film Festival
Features
Thumbnails Special Edition: “Crazy Rich Asians” and Representation in Hollywood
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: August 2, 2018
Features
Spy Music: The Evolution of the Mission: Impossible Theme
Festivals & Awards
Celebrating Michael Kutza: Founder of Chicago International Film Festival to be Honored at July 14th Gala
Features
Harlan Ellison: 1934-2018
Interviews
Lateral Momentum: Leigh Whannell on Upgrade
Festivals & Awards
Michael Kutza, Retiring Founder of Cinema/Chicago, to be Honored at July 14th Gala
Festivals & Awards
The Power of Community: A Recap of the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival
Chaz's Journal
Celebration of Life for Mary Frances Fagan to be Held April 14th
TV/Streaming
Home Entertainment Consumer Guide: February 15, 2018
Features
Chinese New Year: Man’s Best Friend
MZS
30 Minutes on: Wonderstruck
Festivals & Awards
Sundance 2018: Assassination Nation, Arizona, Never Goin’ Back, Summer of ‘84
TV/Streaming
“The Thing” That Wouldn’t Die: On the Legacy of John Carpenter’s Classic Film
Features
Man on the Outside: The Films of Willem Dafoe
Features
