Our go-to images of the 1950s – white picket fences, conspicuous consumption, cheerful conformity – are often, and effectively, contradicted by the cinema of the era.
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How the Nine Inch Nails frontman became one of the film industry’s most venerated composers.
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Bob Odenkirk’s action debut is a crackerjack thriller – and an enjoyable change of pace for the comic actor.
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In the spring of 1981, and again a decade later, one of the world’s biggest movie stars tried to shake up his persona. But these things are easier said than done.
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Werner Herzog seemed like an unlikely director for a Nicolas Cage cop movie. But the resultant collaboration was steeped in the director’s customary themes and preoccupations.
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Our mini-reviews of ‘Trigger Point,’ ‘We Broke Up, ‘ ‘Murder Bury Win,’ and more new direct-to-VOD releases.
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The 2015 Gothic horror romance from @RealGDT, now streaming on Netflix, is one of his very best films – haunted and haunting, chilling and lovelorn.
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It’s the earliest Marx Brothers movie streaming as part of Criterion Channel’s new Marx program – and it tells us much about their longevity and appeal.
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Barbara Crampton and Larry Fessenden shine, but ‘Jakob’s Wife’ just takes too long to find its footing.
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With only one week between them, the film adaptations of ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ and ‘The Kids in the Hall’ hit theaters 25 years ago. It didn’t go so well for either of them.
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Originally released in 1971, Ken Russell’s masterwork remains unavailable in the director’s preferred version.
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The teen erotic thriller, released 25 years ago this week, is a silly, entertaining time capsule with more on its mind than you might think.
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