Our mini-reviews of “The Plus One,” “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” “Caddy Hack,” and more of this week’s straight-to-home fare.
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In 1988, idiosyncratic filmmaker Ken Russell kicked off a three-picture deal with Vestron Pictures with a delightfully absurd, low-budget adaptation of one of Bram Stoker’s *other* novels.
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Robert Redford and George Roy Hill’s 1975 reunion (now streaming on Netflix) is a fascinating experiment in tonal shifts and audience empathy.
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The Austin-based genre festival offered some frustrations for attendees, but the selections were as solid as ever.
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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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An appreciation of the Chicano cinema classic ahead of its induction into the Criterion Collection.
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In his controversial 1989 drama, Pedro Almodovar crafted a storybook Stockholm Syndrome with still-provocative NC-17 flair.
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The first film in the Criterion Channel’s “High School Horror” collection proves ordinary people make the scariest monsters.
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‘Cassandro,’ starring the eternally baby-faced Gael Garcia Bernal, is a captivating portrait of an LGBTQ athlete persevering in an homophobic, oppressive industry (and culture). Unfortunately, it’s also sus as hell.
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Thirty years ago, Richard Linklater made a high school hangout comedy inspired by his Texas youth, which then shaped two more of his personal films decades later.
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As ‘Farewell My Concubine’ gets an uncut, 30th-anniversary re-release this weekend, we look back at the Cannes-winning, politically charged melodrama that was trimmed by Chinese sensors AND Harvey Weinstein.
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On the 20th anniversary of its release, an up-close-and-personal look at the making of Don Coscarelli’s cult classic.
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