John Wayne and John Ford’s final collaboration is a freewheeling goof, a hang-out movie full of drinking, brawling, singing, and camaraderie.
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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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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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With a new Mel Brooks documentary on HBO Max, we take a look at his most controversial comedy.
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Even recency-biased Netflix can’t help streaming this 1973 Best Picture winner, a fast-paced delight that floats on the considerable charms of Robert Redford and Paul Newman.
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No more talk of “Ella McCay” — let us instead look back at James L. Brooks’s feature screenwriting debut, now streaming on the Criterion Channel.
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When Stanley Kubrick’s final feature was posthumously released in 1999, responses were… divided. A quarter century (and a Criterion 4K) later, more viewers have caught on to what Kubrick was up to.
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With Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother” out this month, a look back at his first indie triptych.
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Singer/songwriter Robbie Robertson’s posthumously published memoir relives the long days and longer nights of his friendship and collaboration with Martin Scorsese.
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Alexander Mackendrick’s noir-vember essential was a flop upon its initial release in 1957 — but its weathered, weary cynicism has aged like a fine wine.
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Jacques Tourneur’s 1947 thriller is one of the greatest of all films noir, full of dangerous dames, cigarette smoke, and Robert Mitchum not giving a damn.
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On page 89 of Abel Ferrara’s new memoir Scene, the director provides an enthusiastically detailed description of how to make crack […]
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