This month marks Oscar Wilde’s 170th birthday (and next month marks the 124th anniversary of his death) so let’s go back to that brief time when Miramax was in the Oscar Wilde-adapting business.
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Widely sneered at upon its release, Richard Franklin’s 1983 sequel to Hitchcock’s classic holds up just fine on its own terms.
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Sean Baker’s winning streak continues with this delightfully dirty and warmly humanist portrait of sex work, romance, and their occasional intersections.
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Overlooked in Mike Leigh’s filmography, ‘Vera Drake’ is quietly radical in its portrayal of abortion as a mere fact of everyday life.
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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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L.Q. Jones’s cult adaptation of Harlan Ellison’s Nebula-winning story remains prescient in ways no one could have anticipated half a century ago.
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Our editor-in-chief reports from the 62nd annual NYFF, with mini-reviews of “Blitz,” “Oh, Canada,” “Hard Truths,” “Queer,” “Nickel Boys,” and more.
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This riotously funny 1970 social satire (streaming on Amazon, Tubi, and Plex) showcases star Robert De Niro and director Brian De Palma well before the establishment of their respective personas.
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Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield star in this would-be weepie from ‘Brooklyn’ director John Crowley.
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Back in the day, Disney Channel Original Movies (or DCOMs, if you like) were event television for the preteen set. During their heyday, they released one every month or so, and they went out all with spooky adventures during the Halloween season. We got Under Wraps in 1997, a comedy about a horror movie fan […]
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A quarter-century ago, Steven Soderbergh and Terence Stamp collaborated on a memorably disturbing antihero who remains one of the great revenge-film antiheroes.
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Our mini-reviews of “Plastic,” “The Veil,” “Cash Storm,” and more of this week’s less-heralded VOD and streaming offerings.
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