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Sleepers is a great studio drama for adults: part memoir, part drama, part thriller. Director Barry Levinson adapted Lorenzo Carcaterra’s autobiography and assembled an...
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Sleepers is a great studio drama for adults: part memoir, part drama, part thriller. Director Barry Levinson adapted Lorenzo Carcaterra’s autobiography and assembled an...
In 1980 Goldie Hawn was looking for a project that allowed her to move beyond the light comic persona that had defined her...
For those who may not know, the “slasher film” has its direct roots in the Italian giallos of the 60’s and 70’s. Those...
Gore Verbinski’s Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die is like watching a man find the joy in directing films again, even if I...
I’ve never been more pleasantly surprised by a movie I watched for this site than I have been for Zak Hilditch’s We Bury the...
Not Without Hope is a film I’ve of two minds about: on the one hand, it’s a harrowing survival story, made all the more...
From the moment Send Help opens it’s clear which Sam Raimi we’re getting. The opening sequences of Rachel McAdams navigating American corpo-hell as a...
Ella McCay, the latest film written and directed by James L. Brooks, is a warm comedy about balancing ambition and personality from one...
It’s hard to imagine two films coming out in less than a year’s time from the same director that are as different as...
Since the announcement that Shout Factory had acquired the Golden Princess library (which I was fortunate enough to cover for this very website)...
For as popular as epic fantasy has become in our current phase of cinema, few films have actually tried to render myth with...
Each year it arrives with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season. The great European film festivals: Cannes, Venice, and Berlin designate a number...
Icefall is the kind of mid-budget action-thriller Hollywood made its bread and butter through the 1990s, but it’s staged on a micro budget because...
From the moment Send Help opens it’s clear which Sam Raimi we’re getting. The opening sequences of Rachel McAdams navigating American corpo-hell as a...
Edgar Wright needs an intervention. The Cornetto trilogy and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World combined a refined genre sensibility with brilliant editing and stylistic...
Is Scarface still a film, or have the rap samples, video game sequels, merchandise, parodies and references reduced it to a mere cultural touchstone?...
Minority Report was made almost twenty-five years ago and it still looks like the future. Philip K. Dick is, by far, the greatest science...
If I could distill Jack Black’s cinematic persona to a single sentence it would be thus: he plays charismatic men with adolescent enthusiasm...
Hard Boiled is probably the best pure action film ever made, of any type, from any country. Full stop. John Woo’s incredible run of...
After two stately and haunting romantic thrillers: 2016’s The Handmaiden and 2022’s Decision to Leave, Park Chan-wook’s newest film No Other Choice feels like...
There’s a tension at the heart of Godzilla as a franchise between the horrific origins of the character metaphor for the bomb dropping on...
The Killer is a major turning point in director John Woo’s career, one of the most internationally heralded Hong Kong films of all time,...
Smoke (1995) is a literary ode to small, beautiful things. Written by novelist Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy), it began as an expansion...
The three theatrical Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles films essentially straddle the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles “boom” of the early 1990’s perfectly. The property began...