Twenty years after its release, and with a new stage version playing on Broadway, we look back at William Friedkin and Tracy Letts’s berserk and prophetic horror romance.
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The 1999 teen rom-com is widely beloved these days — but it’s tonally inexplicable and morally reprehensible, so of course it came from Harvey Weinstein.
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The best-loved of director Hiroshi Teshigahara’s three collaborations with novelist Kobe Abe presents a battle of the sexes of primordial proportions.
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The 2026 International Film Festival Rotterdam devoted one of its retrospectives to Japanese direct-to-video genre movies.
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Gregory La Cava’s 1936 hit is the quintessential screwball comedy, a rapid-fire, ceaselessly funny exploration of sex, class, and chaos.
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Though Martin Scorsese was no neophyte in 1976, his dark masterpiece started a string of classics that people choose to misunderstand.
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Unfairly swept aside by the French New Wave, director Claude Autant-Lara’s classic is a beautiful bauble.
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This month’s examination of the cinematic misdeeds of Miramax spotlights Kevin Williamson’s directorial debut, a would-be black comedy softened and spoiled by the brothers Weinstein.
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The notorious Beatles cover boondoggle is currently, inexplicably streaming on Netflix. You may be tempted to see how bad it could be. Resist that temptation.
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With a new Mel Brooks documentary on HBO Max, we take a look at his most controversial comedy.
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Giuseppe De Santis’s 1949 classic brought sex appeal and genre thrills to neorealism.
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The Disney classic (released 65 years ago this week) pioneered the Xerographic process, which enabled animators to work quickly and effectively, even though the process would be used to diminishing returns for future titles.
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