This 1930 fusion of documentary and drama captures both a country and an art form on the verge of tremendous change.
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‘Saw’ (released 20 years ago this week) launched a franchise, a genre, and several careers. It’s also endearingly bad.
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Abel Ferrara’s 1997 thriller may seem like an unconventional watch for Halloween week, but hear us out.
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With Toho’s Godzilla turning 70, here’s a look at how it became the giant, radioactive monster that could.
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Masks are always a popular part of spooky season. But as this French cult classic demonstrates, sometimes it’s not a villain they conceal but a victim.
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Abel Ferrara brought the vampire story into the urban grit of New York malaise in this low-budget 1995 thriller.
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Claire Denis’s 2009 political drama plays, in many ways, like an especially visceral horror movie.
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This month marks Oscar Wilde’s 170th birthday (and next month marks the 124th anniversary of his death) so let’s go back to that brief time when Miramax was in the Oscar Wilde-adapting business.
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Widely sneered at upon its release, Richard Franklin’s 1983 sequel to Hitchcock’s classic holds up just fine on its own terms.
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Overlooked in Mike Leigh’s filmography, ‘Vera Drake’ is quietly radical in its portrayal of abortion as a mere fact of everyday life.
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L.Q. Jones’s cult adaptation of Harlan Ellison’s Nebula-winning story remains prescient in ways no one could have anticipated half a century ago.
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This riotously funny 1970 social satire (streaming on Amazon, Tubi, and Plex) showcases star Robert De Niro and director Brian De Palma well before the establishment of their respective personas.
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