Our latest fringe-VOD round-up, featuring mini-reviews of “Alien Addiction,” “Rising Hawk,” “She’s In Portland,” and more.
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This week’s Classic Corner pick, a long-forgotten Rod Serling-penned drama from 1956, comes recommended by a highly reputable source.
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Tate Taylor’s latest low-energy thriller has a killer cast and workable premise, yet does absolutely nothing right.
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Netflix’s Millie Bobby Brown-fronted family mystery adventure has its problems, but it offers something we’re in dangerously short supply of these days, cinematically speaking.
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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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It’s approaching its 45th anniversary and back on our minds thanks to Ryan Murphy’s ill-advised “Ratched,” so we look back at Milos Forman’s Oscar-sweeping story of rebellion (and emasculation).
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A very unusual dispatch from a very unusual Toronto International Film Festival.
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It’s a time capsule of ‘90s fashion, music, and attitudes. But its central ethos has, if anything, grown more poignant with the passage of time.
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Robert Siodmak’s 1949 thriller (now streaming on the Criterion Channel) is a master class in noir construction, characterization, and mood.
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The Netflix thriller has enough colorful characters and convoluted plotting for a limited series. But that messiness just makes it richer.
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Merawi Gerima’s drama is a deeply personal reminder that you can’t go home again.
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The once and future collaborators’ path from ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ to ‘After Hours’ to ‘Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters’ to ‘The Last Temptation of Christ’ (again).
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