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Though not nearly as deconstructive as De Palma's '80s pastiche and travesty, Mission: Impossible feels like a classical, identifia...

I used to think Carlito's Way was, to quote the popular interpretation, an "apology" for Scarface , a toned-down, mature take...

One of the more depressing critical threads that wove its way through the positive reviews of the recent Transformers film was that, for th...

Brian De Palma may be perennially mistreated by a Hollywood that doesn't fully understand where he's coming from, yet I don't kn...

On a first viewing, I found Casualties of War to be a fitfully intriguing, if overly quotidian Vietnam film that offered up a unique story ...

No one in The Untouchables , either cop or criminal, seems to have anything in the way of a moral code. Their lives are far more existential...

After the veiled satire of Scarface and the open assault of Body Double , Brian De Palma finally caved to pressure and made the sort of fil...

In some respects, Body Double may be the quintessential Brian De Palma film. This is not to say that it is his best, and it may not even me...

That Scarface enjoys a position in the pop culture lexicon that only strengthens with each passing year serves as a validation of its delib...