Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune’s final epic collaboration was released 60 years ago. It marked the end of a brilliant, 17-year run.
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Paul Walter Hauser is the most winning part of this thriller about a real-life game show scandal.
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The great French director, a key name in the New Wave, is the subject of a new collection on the Criterion Channel.
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Welcome to Harvey’s Hellhole, a monthly column devoted to spotlighting the movies that were poorly marketed, mishandled, reshaped, neglected or just straight-up destroyed by Harvey Weinstein during his reign as one of the most powerful studio chiefs in Hollywood. Since we dealt with the great “Spring of Sin” of 1995 last month, let’s go back […]
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Thirty years ago, Chris Farley left ‘Saturday Night Live’ and starred in ‘Tommy Boy,’ a comedy classic that shows both great silliness and skill as an actor.
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Jack Black had done smaller work as well as co-headlined Tenacious D beforehand, but his scene-stealing supporting role in the Stephen Frears comedy made him a star.
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Take our advice: Howard Hawks’s 1941 screwball comedy is the only live-action “Snow White” that’s worth your time.
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Will Pouler is the only thing that keeps this horror-comedy from dying on screen.
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Most of the general public (and even film fans) of the 1990s never heard of Feature Films for Families. But for a certain sliver of young cinephiles, it is a core memory — and for their parents, a source of telephone trauma.
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Our bi-weekly look at the best new titles on Blu-ray, 4K, and your subscription streaming services.
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This emotionally resonant tale of a hitman and his target connecting, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this month, is ripe for rediscovery.
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Years before Patrick Bateman cornered the market on homicide in the American boardroom, Michael Caine crossed the pond to show him how it’s done in this giddy black comedy.
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