“It seems like everybody loves Harry Dean!” So said David Lynch last October, as he presented the Vidiots Foundation’s inaugural Harry Dean...

Twin Peaks: The Return managed to both exceed and confound its viewers’ expectations. This feat is doubly impressive considering how little was...

This month marks the 30th anniversary of John Sayles’s Matewan, an American classic that fell through the cracks upon release and remains...

When it was announced that Quentin Tarantino’s next film would involve the Manson Family murders, the news was met with excitement, outrage,...

When HBO announced its greenlighting of Confederate, a new series from the show-runners of Game of Thrones, the news was met with a barrage of...

When Edgar Wright premiered his new film, Baby Driver, earlier this year at SXSW, critics and viewers were quick to compare it to La La Land. Both...

One of the most anticipated films in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled. The Civil War period piece...

Thanks to Netflix, Amazon, and other streaming services, and with high-quality home-entertainment systems more affordable than ever, theaters have...

How do we measure the importance of an artist? One way is to look at how often their influence is identified in the work of other artists. But an...

On more than one occasion, it has been my duty to inform some poor/lucky soul — poor in the sense that they have gone their whole life unaware of...

Early on in two recent horror films from debut directors — Get Out and Raw — we are treated to individual takes on what has been a trope of the...

The first image we see in Ken Russell’s The Devils is one of comedy: King Louis XIII of France prances about on stage, wearing a string bikini...