This week’s roundup of second-tier VOD releases includes new titles from Drew Barrymore, Paul Hogan, and Cher.
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With “Crash” out on Blu-ray this week from Criterion, we look back at the various attempts to translate JG Ballard’s work to the screen.
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When ‘Mona Lisa Smile’ arrived in theaters in 2003, many critics wrote it off as a lesser ‘Dead Poets Society’ – which is wildly reductive to both the film and its themes.
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The 1990 comedy, released 30 years ago this week, is a holiday perennial and family favorite. So what are we to make of the intensity of its slapstick violence?
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The Micachu and the Shapes frontwoman has become one of the most innovative and interesting composers in film. A look at what makes her work so special:
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Our mini-reviews of ‘Chick Fight,’ ‘Asylum: Twisted Horror and Fantasy Tales,’ ‘My Summer as a Goth,’ and more new off-the-grid VOD releases:
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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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