Category: Happy Birthday

Forty years on, “Easy Money” remains Rodney Dangerfield’s least celebrated and most honest slobs-versus-snobs comedy because, for once, the slobs lose.

After a strong run of ensemble and co-lead turns, Angela Bassett finally got the chance to shine as a true lead, delivering a well-rounded, self-empowering performance that viewers have rarely seen in the subsequent quarter-century.

Thirty years ago, ‘The Wedding Banquet’ introduced audiences to Ang Lee’s cinematic musings on repression and passion.

When Steven Spielberg made ‘Saving Private Ryan’ 25 years ago, the casting of Tom Hanks in a WWII epic was an unconventional one. In retrospect, it was not only inspired but necessary.

Paul Verhoeven’s early Dutch films laid the groundwork for his Hollywood career, but good luck finding one to watch on his 85th birthday.

It’s earned a perennial slot on spooky season TV broadcasts and special-event screenings. Here’s why the horror comedy might be a hard sell if you didn’t grow up watching it.

The comic documentary, released 25 years ago, remains a funny but pointed examination of capitalist longing.

Thirty-five years ago, Penelope Spheeris encapsulated the past, present, and future of hair metal in a documentary filled with glorious excess.

On its 85th anniversary, a close reading of the Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn romance, and what its famously fluid stars and director were trying to tell us.

Potter’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel has beautiful imagery and a passionate certainty that expands our ideals of the possible.

The Jim Carrey vehicle was a commercial smash on its release twenty years ago, but even its own sequel couldn’t replicate its unique appeal.

The Pixar classic ‘Finding Nemo’ turns twenty this month. A look at the film’s enduring legacy, and how the its depiction of the ocean captivates children and adults alike.