The filmography of the late Chuck Norris wasn’t exactly filled with masterpieces. But one title stands out as legitimately jaw dropping, slyly subversive, and terrifyingly prescient.
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To mark legendary producer Roger Corman’s 100th birthday (on April 5), here’s a roundup of his acting jobs for his illustrious alumni.
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John Schlesinger’s 1985 spy thriller boasts fine performances from Timothy Hutton and Sean Penn, and a refreshingly cynical view of the American intelligence apparatus.
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Gregory Hoblit’s courtroom hit is is one of the great legal thrillers told from the point of view of the defense.
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Cult icon Bruce Campbell was given a rare chance to show off his dramatic chops in this real-time crime caper. He made the most of it.
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Two decades after its debut, James Gunn’s first directorial effort remains a pleasantly grimy low budget horror comedy.
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A look back at how Humphrey Bogart’s final movie performance grippingly encapsulated a career playing characters from all across the moral spectrum.
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Marlon Brando’s sole directorial effort remains a fascinating and occasionally confounding conflation of the old and the (then-) new.
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Examining the impulse to avenge the death of an abused child, Kurosawa’s 1998 film (coming to American theaters for the first time) offers a unsparingly grimy vision of the cycle of violence
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Sometimes, you only know the elements of a good subgenre of film when they’re screwed up by a filmmaker who doesn’t […]
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Robert Bresson wanted to make a film about King Arthur’s court for two decades before he got the chance. He used the time to distill it down to its essence.
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Larry Cohen’s Hitchcock riff is a scuzzy New York noir about the inherently voyeuristic nature of movie-making.
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