The release of Wes Anderson’s latest movie has inspired a host of criticism and tributes which, unfortunately, trade in the same clichés and do injustice to his body of work.
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Thirty-five years ago, Penelope Spheeris encapsulated the past, present, and future of hair metal in a documentary filled with glorious excess.
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Our bi-weekly look at the best new must-see titles on Blu-ray, 4K, and your subscription streaming services.
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On its 85th anniversary, a close reading of the Cary Grant/Katharine Hepburn romance, and what its famously fluid stars and director were trying to tell us.
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“My Neighbor Totoro” is Hayao Miyazaki’s most notable work, weaving together themes that reverberate throughout his entire filmography.
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This puff-piece drama about the creation of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos is more marketing than movie.
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Potter’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel has beautiful imagery and a passionate certainty that expands our ideals of the possible.
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This month’s look at the misdeeds of Miramax revisits the 1996 ensemble guy-talk comedy, in which one of the titular characters was… a 13-year-old Natalie Portman.
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This week’s straight-to-VOD mini-reviews include “The Secret Kingdom,” “Bone Cold,” and “All Man: The International Male Story.”
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Before he left this plane of existence last month at age 96, Kenneth Anger laid his personal obsessions bare in a collection of experimental films that still captivate viewers today.
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Kim Ki-young’s 1960 delight (now streaming on the Criterion Channel) isn’t just one of the formative films of Korean cinema – it’s one of the key precursors of the erotic thriller.
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Celine Song’s debut feature is a heart-rending meditation on the choices we make and the possibilities we leave behind.
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