Claire Denis’s 2009 political drama plays, in many ways, like an especially visceral horror movie.
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This month marks Oscar Wilde’s 170th birthday (and next month marks the 124th anniversary of his death) so let’s go back to that brief time when Miramax was in the Oscar Wilde-adapting business.
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Widely sneered at upon its release, Richard Franklin’s 1983 sequel to Hitchcock’s classic holds up just fine on its own terms.
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Overlooked in Mike Leigh’s filmography, ‘Vera Drake’ is quietly radical in its portrayal of abortion as a mere fact of everyday life.
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L.Q. Jones’s cult adaptation of Harlan Ellison’s Nebula-winning story remains prescient in ways no one could have anticipated half a century ago.
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This riotously funny 1970 social satire (streaming on Amazon, Tubi, and Plex) showcases star Robert De Niro and director Brian De Palma well before the establishment of their respective personas.
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Back in the day, Disney Channel Original Movies (or DCOMs, if you like) were event television for the preteen set. During […]
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A quarter-century ago, Steven Soderbergh and Terence Stamp collaborated on a memorably disturbing antihero who remains one of the great revenge-film antiheroes.
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Before Robert Eggers, Werner Herzog brought his signature bleak outlook to the vampire movie with his ‘Nosferatu’ remake, released 45 years ago this week.
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In 1949, Walt Disney and his animators wrapped up their package era with a two-short feature that’s still got the capacity to terrify 75 years later.
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Powell and Pressburger’s 1947 classic starts like a prestige drama and slowly but surely creeps into the realm of psychological terror.
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The 30th anniversary of Quentin Tarantino’s revolutionary ‘Pulp Fiction’ is fast approaching, but let’s give special attention to a less-than revolutionary movie that came out twenty years ago — on home video! — that QT slapped his name on.
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