Our bi-weekly look at the best new titles on Blu-ray, 4K, and your subscription streaming services.
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The 2024 Karlovy Vary Film Festival devoted part of its lineup to the Western genre.
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Bill L. Norton’s 1972 drama (now streaming on Amazon Prime) is a melancholy portrait of bad vibes and burnouts, featuring an unforgettable Kris Kristofferson in the title role.
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Colman Domingo stars in this stirring prison-set drama alongside a cast of formerly incarcerated men.
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Before ‘Longlegs,’ filmmaker Osgood Perkins was already a master of the haunting horror tone poem.
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In her Gotham-set trilogy “Smithereens,” “Desperately Seeking Susan,” and “Cookie,” director Susan Seidelman explored the quirks and eccentricities of ‘80s women.
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Our mini-reviews of “The Uncle,” “Because We’re Family,” “Guys at Parties Like It,” and more.
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If epics are defined as a “body of legend or tradition” illuminating the lives of single, indefinable people, all of Powell and Pressburger’s work could be described as “epic”.
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When he was offered the job in late 1963, Richard Lester was well-positioned to tackle the assignment of directing the Beatles in their first feature. A television veteran just coming off The Mouse on the Moon (the Peter Sellers-free sequel to The Mouse That Roared) for producer Walter Shenson, Lester’s own debut was the 1962 […]
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The 1937 screwball comedy can be enjoyed as one of the best of its type—and as a historic record of the moment a screen persona was perfected.
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Ti West’s porn-and-violence trilogy concludes not with a bang, but a whimper.
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One of cinema’s strongest indictments of the American Dream, Brian De Palma’s 1981 political thriller dredges up what were then still fresh memories of the JFK assassination, Chappaquiddick, and Watergate, and reopens these unhealed wounds.
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