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As we celebrate what would have been the iconic character actor’s 100th birthday, it’s his smallest roles that often left the largest impression.

Peter O’Toole was an eight-time Oscar nominee and a stage legend. He did pretty well for himself, all things considered. Nevertheless, […]

Richard Linklater’s animated take on Philip K. Dick’s classic novel remains disturbingly relevant two decades later.

A commercial disappointment on its release in the summer of 1986, John Carpenter’s action comedy has proven to have remarkable staying power.

Peter Hyams’s distinctive 1981 thriller combines sci-fi and Western storytelling with a forward-looking takedown of predatory capitalism.

On its fiftieth anniversary, we dive into the oddly poignant chaos that ensued that time Rock Hudson grew a lady in a lab.

Olivier Assayas went behind the scenes of a troubled production with his breakthrough film, which debuted 30 years ago.

Twenty-five years ago, Michael Haneke’s shocker premiered at Cannes, giving Isabelle Huppert one of her greatest roles in a career with no shortage of them.

The third installment in the action franchise marked the end of an era for its star and producer, as well as for the film series itself.

Bill Duke’s adaptation of Chester Himes’s iconic crime novel remains a minor but important work in the canon of neo-noir cinema.

At the height of the Golan-Globus B-movie empire’s mid-’80s success, an unsung, under-the-radar release hinted at a different path for the Go-Go Boys.