On this, its 45th anniversary, a look back at the magic and mayhem of Jim Henson and company’s inaugural effort.
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Sam Fuller’s 1959 thriller begins as a sordid police procedural, but morphs into something far more unusual and compelling.
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This nuanced story of a liberal father and his fundamentalist son was one of several films Miramax unceremoniously dumped in theaters in the summer of ’99.
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Fifty years after its release, a look back at the brilliant neo-noir mystery and its muddled legacy.
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Hal Ashby’s 1975 Warren Beatty vehicle (now streaming on Amazon Prime) is a sharp political commentary — and a crackerjack sex comedy.
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Robert Hamer’s acerbic class satire wasn’t a guaranteed hit for Ealing Studios back in the day. Seventy five years on, it still feels riskier than any current mainstream comedy.
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Esther Williams was an athlete turned actress and now, over 70 years later, we’re still in awe of her athletic feats.
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One of the Criterion Channel’s “Restorations and Rediscoveries” this month is Bob Odenkirk’s debut feature, which is ripe for rediscovery.
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Forty years ago this week, two movies were released that once again proved that the hybrid of horror and comedy works tremendously well.
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Now that Roger Corman has joined all four original Ramones at the CBGB in the sky, we look back at their 1979 collaboration, Allan Arkush’s gonzo punk teen musical.
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Nobuhiko Obayashi’s first American release, which slipped under the radar in 1990, returns for a second glance at its tale of an unhappy grocer finding new meaning among Chinese students.
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The rock-and-roll greaser adventure movie, released 40 years ago this week, remains a fascinating anomaly and a one-of-a-kind jukebox oddity.
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