In 1998, Stanley Kubrick accepted the D.W. Griffith Award from the Director’s Guild of America. In his acceptance speech, he compared […]
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When Grand Central Publishing released a new edition of the novel First Blood in 2000, author David Morrell penned an introduction, […]
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The Shakespeare adaptations of the 1990s and early 2000s are unified by an excess of style, and by a series of […]
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Several years ago, while parsing out my love for the films of the late, lamented Tony Scott, I came to a […]
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Proto-indie filmmaker Roger Corman once said, “Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons […]
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These days, Hunter S. Thompson is arguably more famous as a movie character than he is a writer. Founder of the […]
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Sofia Coppola’s career is nearly universally concerned with the unspoken loneliness of womanhood, and her directorial debut, The Virgin Suicides, often […]
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When Mary Harron’s American Psycho hit theaters twenty years ago, it sent shockwaves through mainstream cinema. It was daring, intelligent, and […]
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HandMade Films was formed by George Harrison and his business manager, Denis O’Brien, for the express purpose of bankrolling Monty Python’s […]
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Blue Steel feels like an overlooked entry in Kathryn Bigelow’s filmography. It doesn’t have the online appeal of Point Break, from […]
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