It’s all about escape, and identity, in Wim Wenders’ The American Friend, a loose adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game. Wenders’ film is hallucinatory and dreamlike where Highsmith’s prose is calculating, and the result...

If there didn’t exist a venerable franchise based around the word Alien, would anyone have gone to see a movie called Alien: Resurrection? It’s an objectively stupid, terrible title, better suited for something that...

What an impossible task first-time director David Fincher had in front of him: make a (mostly unnecessary) follow-up film to Alien and Aliens, two films that represent the apex of the horror and action...