Category: Looking Back

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.