Philip Kaufman’s dramatization of a torrid affair between literary legends was the first-ever NC-17 movie, but this erotic drama deserves to be known for more than that.
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For Valentine’s Day, we’re once again looking at the wide variety of onscreen relationships: movies about ill-fated couplings, toxic partners, and […]
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A film as flawed as its narcissistic protagonist, Cameron Crowe’s second collaboration with Tom Cruise is a master class in depicting toxic relationships.
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A new BBC miniseries, screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, pays tribute to the so-called “video nasty” period.
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Stop me faster than a speeding bullet if you’ve heard this one. New York City’s costumed savior has fallen. The captive […]
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Some films are impossible to separate from their provenance. That’s especially true for those made during wartime. 1943’s The Life and […]
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Love has always been a foundational aspect of Disney’s animated storytelling, in short or feature form. The notion of “happily ever […]
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With “Hard Truths” in theaters, a look back at one of Mike Leigh’s earliest and thorniest pictures.
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One of the most uncompromisingly bleak neo-noirs to come out of the late 80’s boom makes its well-deserved Criterion Collection debut this month.
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With his second feature – and first with star Julianne Moore – indie auteur Todd Haynes showed how even the rich and privileged could be made to feel vulnerable.
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With the Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown” nabbing 8 Oscar nominations, this week’s pick is the 1965 documentary that captures Dylan at his trickiest.
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More than 40 years after it aired on PBS, Michael Roemer’s intense chamber drama is the latest of his films to receive a much-delayed arrival in theaters.
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