The One Where Blake Lively Fights a Shark: The Shallows

The ShallowsDirected by Jaume Collet-SerraOpens June 24
In the recent documentary De Palma, subject and filmmaker Brian De Palma frames himself, toward the end of the picture, as sort of the last heir to Alfred Hitchcock. It’s not entirely untrue: Many of today’s best American directors stay away from studio workhorse mode, and as B-pictures have ascended to A-picture tentpole status, even the more lavish B-movies tend to have their sharper corners sanded away. Hell, even a bona fide