Category: Happy Birthday

This 1985 musical drama has a place of importance in American indie cinema that you might not guess from its current low profile.

The rapturous response to “Mortal Kombat II”’s red-band trailer is evidence that the original 1995 adaptation’s maximalist approach is how you bring such a game to the big screen.

Werner Herzog’s documentary, released 20 years ago, is attempt to understand a man who wanted to become an animal — but it becomes an exploration of the complex relationship between the documentarian and his subject. 

Although they were each stars in their own right, Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrell briefly shone as a comedy team in neglected films like “We’re in the Money,” released 90 years ago this week.

Thirty years ago this summer, the uber-popular teen comedy genre took on some sci-fi trappings, with fascinating results.

It’s been six decades since John Schlesinger’s swinging 60’s satire was released, but its dim view of the “good life” feels eternally relevant.

Forty years after its butchered American release, we look back at Dario Argento’s craziest movie.

It may have been released during the summer 80 years ago, but this Barbara Stanwyck romantic comedy captures its own screwball sense of the Christmas spirit.

With multifaceted performances by William Hurt and Raúl Juliá, this 1985 Oscar winner affirms the power of acts of empathy and understanding under fascist regimes. 

The Oscar-winning actor’s sole directorial effort was released 55 years ago. Though considered one of the finest films of the 1950s, it took some time to find its audience.