With Alex Garland’s ‘Civil War’ in theaters, we take a look at the long history of blowing up the nation’s capital in the movies.
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Fifty years after its release, the controversial drama still has the power to shock and unnerve.
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Alex Garland presents a bleak view of a near-future America in this dystopian film.
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The late, great French filmmaker is in the spotlight on the Criterion Channel.
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Our mini-reviews of several new titles for home viewing, including “Strictly Confidential,” “All You Need is Death,” and “Sweet Dreams.”
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With Peter Weir announcing his retirement from filmmaking, a look back at his first feature, the pitch-black comedy ‘The Cars That Ate Paris.’
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In between the two “Godfather” films, Francis Ford Coppola made this down and dirty surveillance thriller. Released fifty years ago this week, it might just be his masterpiece.
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In “The Best Man,” a politician played by Henry Fonda considers accusing another, played by Cliff Robertson, of being a “homosexual.” It was the first time the word was used in a major movie.
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Dev Patel’s directorial debut is wildly ambitious – perhaps too much so for its own good.
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In five films of varying quality, Patricia Highsmith’s sociopathic con artist has proved to be highly adaptable, both personally and artistically.
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When Iris Apfel died in March, she left behind an improbable legacy as—to use her words—“a geriatric starlet.” After living in relative anonymity as a textiles importer to the upper class, Apfel rose to the upper echelons of fashion celebrity when the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art curated a show from […]
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Remembering one one the great character actors of modern cinema, in the wake of his passing at age 88.
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