Jacques Tourneur’s 1947 thriller is one of the greatest of all films noir, full of dangerous dames, cigarette smoke, and Robert Mitchum not giving a damn.
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This little-seen 1973 TV movie is one of the most sophisticated adaptations of Mary Shelley’s classic novel.
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Between Oscar winners, the late Diane Keaton co-starred in a send-up of Russian literature that showed off her prodigious comedic gifts.
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Decades before it became ‘MST3K’ fodder, Gamera posed a serious challenge to Godzilla’s status as “king of the monsters.”
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Classier, costlier Stephen King adaptations may have followed, but this 1990 quickie has aged into a testament to his begrudging talent for horror at its most shamelessly grotesque.
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In his pulpy, complex portrait of a Holocaust denier, documentarian Errol Morris pushes his fascination with “the weird and the morbid” in strange new directions.
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To honor the late, great Diane Keaton, a look back at the movie that won her an Oscar and made her an icon.
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This month’s look at the cinematic misdeeds of the Weinsteins takes it back thirty years, when a certain pulpy flick set off a wave of crazy/sexy/cool crime stories.
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This 2018 Swedish science fiction film finds a spaceship’s passengers drifting off course into depression and existential dread.
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Director Joan Micklin Silver and star Carol Kane tell a timeless story of tradition, assimilation, and agency.
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Cameron Crowe’s famous flop may be best remembered for inspiring the term “Manic Pixie Dream Girl,” but its legacy should also include being the first of 20 years of failed launches for a generation of leading men like Orlando Bloom, whose appeal couldn’t translate outside of franchises.
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Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta’s adaptation of the incendiary Heinrich Böll novel premiered in the U.S. fifty years ago this week, but it feels like it hasn’t aged a day.
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