As ‘History of the World, Part II’ debuts on Hulu, we look back at Mel Brooks’s original film, which is a wonderfully strange and funny tale told at the expense of history’s sacred cows.
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Jean Cocteau’s 1946 adaptation of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is a luminous work, with edges that its subsequent versions have sadly sanded down.
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Michael B. Jordan’s Sly-free three-quel vividly recalls “Rocky III” – for good and ill.
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Guy Ritchie reteams with Jason Statham for this spy action comedy, but we’re really celebrating his reunion with Hugh Grant.
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The 60-year-old “High and Low” proves Akira Kurosawa was just as adept at crafting contemporary stories as he was samurai epics.
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Our bi-weekly look at the best new must-see titles on Blu-ray, 4K, and your subscription streaming services.
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Fifty years after giving the previously exiled Charlie Chaplin his only competitive Oscar – thus mirroring the prophetic ending of the film he won for, ‘Limelight’ – Hollywood continues to co-opt the hard-earned comebacks of those it once mistreated.
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Alan Rudolph’s 1978 character study, long unavailable for home viewing, is now streaming on Amazon Prime – and it’s a sometimes puzzling and utterly scathing work.
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Jim Gaffigan stars in this gently funny, wildly original film.
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Quentin Tarantino’s book “Cinema Speculation” got us nostalgic for that time, back in the late ‘90s, when Miramax just let him release whatever old exploitation oddities he felt like.
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Our mini-reviews of ‘Devil’s Peak,’ ‘Lamya’s Poem,’ ‘Who Are You People,’ and more new low-profile video-on-demand fare.
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Cale’s scores offer some insight into the development of his ideas, and should be viewed as an even more experimental facet of a peripatetic and engaging career.
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