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11/03/202511/02/2025inMoviesby Sean Burns5 min read

Abel Ferrara’s Scene is a Vivid, Meandering, Compelling Memoir

On page 89 of Abel Ferrara’s new memoir Scene, the director provides an enthusiastically detailed description of how to make crack cocaine. By the end of the paragraph he’s pleading with the reader: “Don’t try it. Rip this recipe out of the book and burn it. You have to be Dante to describe where one […]

10/31/202510/29/2025inClassic Corner, Looking Backby Craig J. Clark5 min read

Classic Corner: Gamera, the Giant Monster

Decades before it became ‘MST3K’ fodder, Gamera posed a serious challenge to Godzilla’s status as “king of the monsters.”

10/30/202511/05/2025inReviewsby Jason Bailey4 min read

Review: Nouvelle Vague

Richard Linklater’s chronicle of the making of Godard’s “Breathless” is a charming valentine to the creative process, though some of its notes are a touch obvious.

10/29/202510/29/2025inLooking Backby Jeremy Herbert5 min read

35 Years on the Graveyard Shift

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.

10/28/202511/10/2025inDisc/Streaming Guides, Reviewsby Jason Bailey14 min read

The Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: A House of Dynamite, MS. 45, Nightmare Alley, and More

Our bi-weekly look at the best new titles on Blu-ray, 4K, and your subscription streaming services.

10/27/202510/26/2025inLooking Backby Julia Sirmons5 min read

The Mad Scientist Goes to Auschwitz: Documentary Horror in Mr. Death

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.

10/27/202510/26/2025inMoviesby Jason Bailey4 min read

The Dread and Doom of In The Mouth of Madness

John Carpenter’s 1994 meta-horror flick, newly available on 4K from Arrow Video, is one of his strangest and most formally experimental efforts.

10/24/202510/23/2025inClassic Corner, Looking Backby Sean Burns5 min read

Classic Corner: Annie Hall

To honor the late, great Diane Keaton, a look back at the movie that won her an Oscar and made her an icon.

10/23/202510/22/2025inLooking Backby Craig D. Lindsey6 min read

Harvey’s Hellhole: Things To Do When Pulp Fiction is a Hit

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.