Musical polymath Jon Brion’s solo album ‘Meaninglessness’ has been re-released, making this a good time to look back at his collaborations with Paul Thomas Anderson.
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The Brenaissance is here, but before ‘The Whale,’ Brendan Fraser went toe-to-toe with no less than Michael Caine in this razor-sharp adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel.
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This week’s straight-to-VOD mini-reviews include “I Am D.B. Cooper,” “Dragon Eats Eagle,” and “Renegades.”
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With the release of ‘White Noise,’ we look through Noah Baumbach’s films to see how he has reckoned with the question: can I live with the decisions I have made?
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With three separate ‘Pinocchio’ adaptations hitting screens this year, it’s time for a 20th anniversary postmortem of Roberto Benigni’s notorious version.
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The story goes that producer Walter Wanger came to Frank Borzage with a title, two pages of a script and a start date scheduled for four weeks away. It was a crazy proposition even by breakneck Old Hollywood production standards, but what a title. Wanger knew Borzage had been itching for a change of pace […]
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This snow-covered, blood-spattered holiday action flick is dumb, sure – but delightfully dumb.
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Carly Simon’s recent induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame confirms her singer/songwriter bona fides. But what of her film work?
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Our mini-reviews of “Confessions of a Hitman,” “Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon,” “Summertime Dropouts,” and more straight-to-VOD selections.
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These two horror films, made a decade apart, depict the breakdown of society to a degree where reality loses all meaning.
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Two portraits of prep-school life and sympathetic instructors, but drawing on very different worldviews and outcomes.
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Our resident Weinstein expert weighs in on the new film’s fact and fiction, and what’s changed in the years since its events.
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