Zhang Yimou’s début kicked off a legendary partnership with actress Gong Li, and signaled the beginning of a new era of Chinese cinema.
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There are images and moments in Luis Buñuel’s Los Olvidados that stick in the memory long after the final fadeout, and […]
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In honor of the actor’s 100th birthday this week, we look back at a role that offered him the rare chance to underplay his brash persona.
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Cyndi Lauper’s willingness to experiment in different media has played a role in her career-long ubiquity…including a side hustle as a character actress.
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Jacques Tourneur’s 1947 thriller is one of the greatest of all films noir, full of dangerous dames, cigarette smoke, and Robert Mitchum not giving a damn.
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This little-seen 1973 TV movie is one of the most sophisticated adaptations of Mary Shelley’s classic novel.
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Between Oscar winners, the late Diane Keaton co-starred in a send-up of Russian literature that showed off her prodigious comedic gifts.
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Decades before it became ‘MST3K’ fodder, Gamera posed a serious challenge to Godzilla’s status as “king of the monsters.”
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Classier, costlier Stephen King adaptations may have followed, but this 1990 quickie has aged into a testament to his begrudging talent for horror at its most shamelessly grotesque.
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In his pulpy, complex portrait of a Holocaust denier, documentarian Errol Morris pushes his fascination with “the weird and the morbid” in strange new directions.
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To honor the late, great Diane Keaton, a look back at the movie that won her an Oscar and made her an icon.
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This month’s look at the cinematic misdeeds of the Weinsteins takes it back thirty years, when a certain pulpy flick set off a wave of crazy/sexy/cool crime stories.
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