How three films – by David Lynch, David Cronenberg, and Andrzej Zulawski – redefined genre cinema, and the films of their children continued those traditions.
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The groundbreaking actor, born 100 years ago this week, helped redefine masculinity and sexuality on- and off-screen.
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This 1933 drama is a rare example of a studio film grappling seriously with the wounds of war. A look back:
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As more documentarians tackle the women of the punk and pre-punk movements, are their films shattering norms like their subjects did?
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With a new showcase of his work on the Criterion Channel, we look at how Albert Brooks explored the possibilities of his carefully crafted comic persona.
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A very unusual dispatch from a very unusual Toronto International Film Festival.
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Writer/director Charlie Kaufman’s latest, the Netflix film ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things,’ is (among other things) a thoughtful exploration of a recurring but unexamined theme in his work.
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“If everybody want to stick together, I stick with ‘em. But if nobody want to stick together, I stick alone, by […]
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It’s one of the most striking openings in cinema history: A burly, shirtless man in a black hood stokes a brazier, […]
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You probably are not giving much thought to either The Expendables, an Avengers-style roundup of action stars with AARP cards, or […]
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In recent weeks and months, Hollywood’s legacy of cultural appropriation and racism has come under increased scrutiny, with the latest controversy […]
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“That twinkle in your eye,” Clark Gable marvels at Carole Lombard in No Man of Her Own. “Wrap it up for […]
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