To mark Irish writer/director Neil Jordan’s 75th birthday, a look at where he got his start.
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Alternative weekly newspapers may be a dying breed, but Joan Micklin Silver’s warm, funny film captures the heyday of the counterculture publications and the people who created them.
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William Friedkin’s 1985 cop thriller is noteworthy not only for its 80s aesthetics and hard-hitting action, but for its cold, dark heart.
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Made in 1999, Zeinabu irene Davis’ unique film, inspired by silent cinema, chronicled the lives of Black, Deaf women in Chicago.
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In honor of his 100th birthday, we revisit a late career masterpiece from a director whose time in the dream factory could sometimes be a nightmare.
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As we approach its 25th anniversary, a look at the groundbreaking queer coming-of-age comedy and its legacy,
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Our week of Bad Romances climaxes with Nagisa Oshima’s graphic story of sexual obsession – one still unseen in its home country in its uncut form.
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Andzrej Zulawski’s eye-popping, gonzo gangland romance turns 40, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
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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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