Since June is Pride Month, our latest look at the Weinstein legacy revisits the time a promising lesbian filmmaker was brought in to Miramax to helm a very bad bro comedy.
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When it came to bringing Robert Ludlum’s novel to the screen, casting the right actor made all the difference.
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Jean-Luc Godard called it his “second first film,” and while his 1980 drama diverged from his ’70s experiments, it was no ‘Breathless’ either.
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Though it hit theaters the same weekend as ‘Star Wars,’ and came in second in the year’s box office race, ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ has cast a much shorter shadow over contemporary culture. Let’s look at why.
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Adam Sandler’s latest Netflix effort is wildly predictable, but held aloft by the charisma of its players.
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A look at two forgotten films the much-maligned filmmaker – and focus of a fascinating new biography – directed in the wake of ‘Heaven’s Gate.”
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Our mini-reviews of ‘I’m Charlie Walker,’ ‘Sewer Gators,’ ‘ScarfFace,’ and more.
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You can all but set your watch to it, every time a new and potentially challenging film is released: the careful, often context-free evaluation by a group of self-appointed Internet moralizers. Are there any immoral, or even amoral, actions that aren’t explicitly condemned within the narrative? Or worse, does the film commit the ultimate crime […]
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Have you heard the good news?
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Divorce, Canadian Style.
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David Cronenberg’s latest is a body-horror infused sci-fi film noir more interested in posing questions than answering them.
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Chloe Okuno’s unnerving thriller puts the audience in the shoes of a woman being watched — rather than those of her voyeur, as most other films do.
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