The Dire Straights frontman’s scores for “Local Hero” and “The Princess Bride” take their place among the best work of his career.
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In her Gotham-set trilogy “Smithereens,” “Desperately Seeking Susan,” and “Cookie,” director Susan Seidelman explored the quirks and eccentricities of ‘80s women.
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Now that Roger Corman has joined all four original Ramones at the CBGB in the sky, we look back at their 1979 collaboration, Allan Arkush’s gonzo punk teen musical.
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If the time is right for a ska revival, maybe the electrifying performances in ‘Dance Craze’ will find an enthusiastic new audience.
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When Iris Apfel died in March, she left behind an improbable legacy as—to use her words—“a geriatric starlet.” After living in […]
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In “The Brink’s Job,” director William Friedkin and screenwriter Walon Green found the humor in one of the most notorious bank robberies in Boston by playing with the standards set by previous crime films set in the Commonwealth.
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Tina Turner turned in a pair of indelible screen performances that extended—and, in some cases, subverted—the qualities that made her appealing on record and in concert.
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With their final film together out this week, a look at the decades-long creative collaboration between the director and the musician.
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Neil Jordan’s collaboration with Sinead O’Connor is a lasting testament to their friendship and to the values in which she was most invested.
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In the early days of hip hop, the nascent genre had a visual counterpart in graffiti culture. Just as the spare […]
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It’s earned a perennial slot on spooky season TV broadcasts and special-event screenings. Here’s why the horror comedy might be a hard sell if you didn’t grow up watching it.
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Robert Mitchum turns in a late-career-best performance in Peter Yates’s powerfully bleak Boston crime picture.
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