Fifty years later, the 1972 musical ‘1776’ remains a film worth watching, both for the honest and dishonest ways it portrays American history.
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Eminem big-screen origin story – released 20 years ago – was a key step in the controversial artist’s path to mainstream acceptance.
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Three decades after Tim Robbins’s biting political satire hit theaters, its remains reliably insightful and prescient.
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This 1973 adaptation of the Richard Stark (aka Donald E. Westlake) novel beautifully captures the stark quality of his distinctive prose. Now streaming on HBO Max:
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This 1984 film from legendary director John Huston – set on the Day of the Dead – is a late career triumph that also feels like an exorcism.
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‘The Usual Suspects,’ ‘The Sixth Sense,’ and ‘The Crying Game’ have far more to offer than just their famous twists.
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Before ‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ Tom Cruise and Joseph Kosinski teamed up for this visually and emotionally powerful sci-fi action movie, now streaming on Netflix and Hulu.
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When Orson Welles broadcast his immortal radio play on Halloween night of 1938, he began a tradition that has served horror well for decades.
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René Clair’s 1942 supernatural romantic comedy is the perfect Halloween viewing choice for anyone who isn’t into scary movies.
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The Lumière Festival paid tribute to the great French actress by showcasing her relatively obscure directorial efforts.
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The guy behind Hitchcock’s title sequences and the man who shot ‘The Godfather’ trilogy only got to direct one movie each, but they just happen to be two of the most unique-looking horror movies ever made.
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Producer Roger Corman gave director Amy Holden Jones free reign to craft a self-aware, feminist-tilting slasher movie (from a script by lesbian activist and author Rita Mae Brown). The results were exploitation magic.
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