Scott Eyman’s excellent new book chronicles how art sex and politics collided to drive a genius out of the country.
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Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalogue titles making a splash on Blu-ray or 4K. This twice-monthly column sifts through all of those choices to pluck out the movies most worth your time, […]
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Woody Allen’s Miramax movies were a quartet of dirty-minded, star-studded screwball comedies where a post-scandal Allen was at his most invincible — and most unrepentant.
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The 1982 Tobe Hooper/Steven Spielberg team-up remains one of the latter’s most fascinating works, both revisiting and subverting his recurring preoccupations.
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Alexander Payne’s latest is a conscious throwback – and a successful one.
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This enjoyably silly Lovecraft adaptation is Stuart Gordon-lite.
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Given its time, ‘I Want to Live!’ (released 65 years ago this week) is surprisingly aware of the raw deal women defendants get in a “trial by media.”
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This week’s round-up of new titles on VOD includes “Sick Girl,” “The Most Remote Restaurant in the World,” “Boudica: Queen of War,” and more.
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Though classic ghost stories are told time and time again, Alejandro Amenábar’s ‘The Others’ reminds us that each retelling can be surprising and scary.
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Now streaming on the Criterion Channel, James Whale’s follow-up to ‘Frankenstein’ warrants enshrinement in the Universal Horror pantheon.
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Maryam Keshavarz imbues this multi-generational story about an Iranian-American woman and her mother with wild energy.
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Raoul Peck’s “Silver Dollar Road” is yet another well-made documentary about Black people getting screwed.
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