Classier, costlier Stephen King adaptations may have followed, but this 1990 quickie has aged into a testament to his begrudging talent for horror at its most shamelessly grotesque.
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Years before Patrick Bateman cornered the market on homicide in the American boardroom, Michael Caine crossed the pond to show him how it’s done in this giddy black comedy.
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Before producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson handed the James Bond reins to Amazon, only one mission was completed outside the family, and now ‘Never Say Never Again’ plays like prophecy.
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Stop me faster than a speeding bullet if you’ve heard this one. New York City’s costumed savior has fallen. The captive […]
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Four months before ‘Black Christmas’ invented the modern slasher, director Bob Clark dragged a much older kind of horror story through the foxholes of Vietnam to even more disturbing effect.
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Steve Spielberg’s debut theatrical feature, released 50 years ago this week, isn’t exactly a Rosetta Stone. But it hints at themes and ideas that would preoccupy his subsequent work.
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Overqualified and underrated as ever, “Running Scared” remains an essential, entertaining text about escaping the January doldrums for a little sweet freedom.
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Forty years on, “Easy Money” remains Rodney Dangerfield’s least celebrated and most honest slobs-versus-snobs comedy because, for once, the slobs lose.
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Blake Edwards couldn’t make ‘Chinatown’ work as a buddy comedy, but he did send a very different Bruce Willis into the sunset in style.
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In her debut directorial effort, writer/director/star Elaine May proved love means never having to kill in cold blood.
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The final film from director J. Lee Thompson – and his final collaboration with star Charles Bronson – is a fitting postscript to their sketchy legacy.
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It may not be a conventional Valentine’s Day pick, but it’s the most romantic movie Clint Eastwood made until his journey to Madison County.
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