Category: Happy Birthday

With his adaptation of Graham Greene’s ‘Ministry of Fear,’ Fritz Lang showed it was just as important to fight Nazis on the home front as it was on the front lines.

In the quarter-century since its release, it’s become abundantly clear that a particular alchemy was at work when writer/director Stephen Sommers crafted his take on the Universal monster.

Twenty years later, the supernatural rom-com remains an antidote to the godawful films that attempted to capitalize on Jennifer Garner’s action hero appeal.

Thirty years on, Shu Lea Cheang’s debut feature cum experimental sci-fi political critique comments pitch-perfectly on issues that plague our contemporary world.

Reese Witherspoon portrays Tracy Flick as something teenage girls in film are so rarely allowed to be: unrepentantly ruthless in their ambition.

In 1994, both films took a stab at resurrecting a Freddy Krueger-type character. What they ended up doing instead was argue in favor of the horror genre itself. 

With Peter Weir announcing his retirement from filmmaking, a look back at his first feature, the pitch-black comedy ‘The Cars That Ate Paris.’

In between the two “Godfather” films, Francis Ford Coppola made this down and dirty surveillance thriller. Released fifty years ago this week, it might just be his masterpiece.

In “The Best Man,” a politician played by Henry Fonda considers accusing another, played by Cliff Robertson, of being a “homosexual.” It was the first time the word was used in a major movie.

Steve Spielberg’s debut theatrical feature, released 50 years ago this week, isn’t exactly a Rosetta Stone. But it hints at themes and ideas that would preoccupy his subsequent work.

On its 20th anniversary, a look back at Lars von Trier’s controversial and divisive Nicole Kidman vehicle.