A quarter century after its apparent sell-by date, the campy, Paul Bartel-directed black comedy/action/sci-fi mash-up remains uproariously funny and stubbornly relevant.
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Mickey Spillane’s most famous creation headlined one of the most pitch-black noirs ever made – and cracked a few heads in the process.
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Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune’s final epic collaboration was released 60 years ago. It marked the end of a brilliant, 17-year run.
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As Monty Python’s second feature turns 50, a look at how it became the cult film that broke them in America.
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“I can’t say that I would recommend it to anyone other than to look at it in the context of a […]
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To mark Irish writer/director Neil Jordan’s 75th birthday, a look at where he got his start.
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Our week of Bad Romances climaxes with Nagisa Oshima’s graphic story of sexual obsession – one still unseen in its home country in its uncut form.
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With his second feature – and first with star Julianne Moore – indie auteur Todd Haynes showed how even the rich and privileged could be made to feel vulnerable.
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John Carpenter and Dan O’Bannon’s debut feature hit theaters 50 years ago this week, but it took a while for the heady sci-fi comedy to take off.
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Terry Gilliam’s vision of a totalitarian state where Christmas shopping and terrorist bombings exist side by side is a discomfiting primer for things to come.
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With cult director Alex Cox on the cusp of turning 70, we look at ‘Walker,’ the film that rendered him unemployable in Hollywood.
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With Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” landing on Apple TV+ this week, a look back at John Boorman’s wartime memory film “Hope and Glory.”
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