In two movies of the 2010s, two filmmakers attempted to capture the charms of the island state – with wildly varying degrees of success.
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Elia Kazan’s Oscar-winning 1947 drama (now streaming on Criterion Channel) is sometimes dismissed as dated and preachy – which is part of why it’s so valuable.
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The latest installment of the venerable slasher franchise fumbles occasionally, but its heart is in the right place.
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The hilariously true story of the Coen brothers’ fictitious editor.
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Our mini-reviews of ‘Road to Perth,’ ‘Shattered,’ ‘Ditched,’ and more of this week’s straight-to-VOD titles.
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With a six-film spotlight on the Criterion Channel, we take a look at the complex kinda-sorta feminism of sexploitation director Doris Wishman.
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When Mike Nesmith died last month, he left behind not only a legacy in music, but in film. A look back at the last of his cinematic endeavors:
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‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ is the latest Coen effort exploring a theme present from the beginning of their filmography: the misery of matrimony.
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A dozen titles from Egyptian director Youssef Chahine have popped up on Netflix – including this unnerving, ahead-of-its time character study.
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The new George Clooney film suffers from his usual tics, but is grounded by a wonderful Ben Affleck performance.
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Asghar Farhadi’s latest is another tricky tale of compromised morality and conflicts of both a personal and political nature.
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With Sundance around the corner, we look back at perhaps the most disastrous of Miramax’s many ill-advised, overpriced festival pick-ups.
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