The 2026 International Film Festival Rotterdam devoted one of its retrospectives to Japanese direct-to-video genre movies.
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Gregory La Cava’s 1936 hit is the quintessential screwball comedy, a rapid-fire, ceaselessly funny exploration of sex, class, and chaos.
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Though Martin Scorsese was no neophyte in 1976, his dark masterpiece started a string of classics that people choose to misunderstand.
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This gay BDSM rom-com wears its big ol’ heart on its leather sleeve.
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Unfairly swept aside by the French New Wave, director Claude Autant-Lara’s classic is a beautiful bauble.
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This month’s examination of the cinematic misdeeds of Miramax spotlights Kevin Williamson’s directorial debut, a would-be black comedy softened and spoiled by the brothers Weinstein.
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The notorious Beatles cover boondoggle is currently, inexplicably streaming on Netflix. You may be tempted to see how bad it could be. Resist that temptation.
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Our mini-reviews of “Grizzly Night,” “The Morrigan,” “Acts of Love” and more of this week’s on-demand treasures and trash.
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Our final report from the just-concluded Sundance Film Festival includes mini-reviews of “Josephine,” “Soul Patrol,” “The Musical,” “Zi,” and more.
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With a new Mel Brooks documentary on HBO Max, we take a look at his most controversial comedy.
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Our second report from the Sundance Film Festival includes mini-reviews of “The Invite,” “The Weight,” “I Want Your Sex,” “Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie,” “Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass,” and more.
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Giuseppe De Santis’s 1949 classic brought sex appeal and genre thrills to neorealism.
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