The image of the protagonist running across space on New Year’s Eve is a potent one, scattered across cinema history, with classic films redefining it for a new era and a new audience. What does it convey about our desire for newness and progression?
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Errol Morris’s Oscar-winning documentary, released 20 years ago, is a masterful meeting of stylist and subject.
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The Paris of Hemingway, Stein, and company is the stuff of legend, but in Alan Rudolph’s “The Moderns,” the myth comes crashing down to earth.
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On the 40th anniversary of the release of the tough-as-nails cop movie, an appreciation of its unorthodox leading man.
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Frank Capra’s touching and fantastical ode to triumph of the human spirit is a beloved holiday classic. But it’s also a tough and dark story about fate that fits right in line with the movement known as film noir.
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Dueling psychics, vengeful samurai spirits, and deer hunting are some of the ingredients that went into this singular Christmas slasher.
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A twisted and gritty Yuletide fairy tale gets new life thanks to the proselytizing of the cult icon.
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Craig R. Baxle’s holiday B-movie (also known as “I Come In Peace”) mixes action, sci-fi, and Christmas cheer, to entertaining effect.
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“Silver Bells,” “White Christmas,” and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” may be seasonal favorites, but they didn’t magically appear out of the holiday ether — all were originally written for movies.
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David Lowery’s 2021 adventure lives in the darker side of the holidays, embracing the horror of facing the oncoming year.
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On its 40th anniversary, an exploration of what James L. Brooks’s Oscar winner gets right – and other weepies don’t.
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In “The Brink’s Job,” director William Friedkin and screenwriter Walon Green found the humor in one of the most notorious bank robberies in Boston by playing with the standards set by previous crime films set in the Commonwealth.
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