This documentary tips between the highs of its extreme thrills and the lows of its relationship drama.
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Ann Hui’s neglected 2002 drama (out this week in a new 4K restoration) explores age-gap relationships as a cycle of abuse and symptom of marital unhappiness.
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Paul Verhoeven left Hollywood to make a film about the Dutch resistance, but that didn’t mean he became respectable.
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Our bi-weekly look at the best new titles on Blu-ray, 4K, and your subscription streaming services.
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The 2024 Karlovy Vary Film Festival devoted part of its lineup to the Western genre.
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Bill L. Norton’s 1972 drama (now streaming on Amazon Prime) is a melancholy portrait of bad vibes and burnouts, featuring an unforgettable Kris Kristofferson in the title role.
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Colman Domingo stars in this stirring prison-set drama alongside a cast of formerly incarcerated men.
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Before ‘Longlegs,’ filmmaker Osgood Perkins was already a master of the haunting horror tone poem.
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In her Gotham-set trilogy “Smithereens,” “Desperately Seeking Susan,” and “Cookie,” director Susan Seidelman explored the quirks and eccentricities of ‘80s women.
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Our mini-reviews of “The Uncle,” “Because We’re Family,” “Guys at Parties Like It,” and more.
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If epics are defined as a “body of legend or tradition” illuminating the lives of single, indefinable people, all of Powell and Pressburger’s work could be described as “epic”.
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When he was offered the job in late 1963, Richard Lester was well-positioned to tackle the assignment of directing the Beatles in their first feature. A television veteran just coming off The Mouse on the Moon (the Peter Sellers-free sequel to The Mouse That Roared) for producer Walter Shenson, Lester’s own debut was the 1962 […]
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