Craig R. Baxle’s holiday B-movie (also known as “I Come In Peace”) mixes action, sci-fi, and Christmas cheer, to entertaining effect.
Read more“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.
Read moreDavid Lowery’s 2021 adventure lives in the darker side of the holidays, embracing the horror of facing the oncoming year.
Read moreOn its 40th anniversary, an exploration of what James L. Brooks’s Oscar winner gets right – and other weepies don’t.
Read moreIn “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.
Read moreFirst released in December 1973, Robin Hardy’s folk horror remains a fascinating piece of mishandled cinema.
Read moreThe 1997 crime film/modern-day western is one of Stallone’s best performances. And one of his most personal.
Read moreTwenty years ago, Miramax dropped the filthiest, funniest gift into theaters – following even more behind-the-scenes drama than usual.
Read moreSixty years ago, Georges Franju paid tribute to one of his filmmaking heroes with an affectionate remake of Louis Feuillade’s “Judex.”
Read moreThe 1988 coming-of-age tale ‘Cinema Paradiso’ was practically patient zero when it came to Miramax taking a middlebrow foreign film and turning it into a much-adored, Oscar-winning hit.
Read moreTwo decades ago, Park Chan-wook’s revenge thriller reinvented Korean cinema. A decade Later, Spike Lee remade it.
Read moreTina Turner turned in a pair of indelible screen performances that extended—and, in some cases, subverted—the qualities that made her appealing on record and in concert.
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