With “Cherry,” Tom Holland joins the ranks of heartthrobs who try to prove their Serious Actor mettle by dropping their baby fat and cranking up the tics.
In this excerpt from his new book, Tim Grierson explains the close-up via its use in 'Persona,' 'The Passion of Joan of Arc,' and 'If Beale Street Could Talk.'
The filmmaker’s first two features join the Criterion Collection this week, but two of his later films have been dismissed as lesser efforts. Not so fast.
Shudder’s new “A Nightmare Wakes” is the latest attempt to bring the real story of Frankenstein’s creator to the screen – and, once again, it’s a big miss. What keeps going wrong?
This early Kurosawa effort, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, is a striking slice of postwar noir (and a sharp contrast to the work he's best known for).
