If you mix into a rancid brew Woody Allen’s 1979 roundelay of self-centered upper middle class New Yorkers, Manhattan, along with Allen’s flirtations with shaky cam Read More

Or as it will always be known, when the series went from peril to overplotting… When last we left the comely Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and her Read More

There are 20 decent minutes buried in the middle of horror anthology V/H/S: Viral, but there’s no compensating for the irredeemable dreck that surrounds them. You Read More

To recount the experiences of a group of gay men in 1950s Europe, director Stefan Haupt has melded narrative and documentary, resulting in more dramatic potential Read More

Quentin  Tarantino made waves late last year when he declared Big Bad Wolves the best film of 2013. It didn’t reach U.S. shores until early 2014 — Read More

Yes, fame comes with a price. The loss of privacy. The expectations of the audience. The stereotypical truisms of its fleeting nature and rollercoaster constants. But Read More

When it first hit homes in America, Hollywood felt no significant threat from television. After all, would viewers really reject the theatrical experience to see their favorite Read More

Twenty years is a long time. Put another way, if you graduated high school at 18, the addition of two decades could result in your own child Read More

In one of the most shocking moments from John Ford’s epic western The Searchers, John Wayne, who is looking for his niece that has been abducted Read More

Force Majeure is a film about an avalanche. But like any good art movie, that inciting incident is really just a MacGuffin that launches a two-hour Read More

In a chilling and prescient moment in Network, a corporate board chairman lectures a television anchorman about the new world order: “There are no Arabs. There Read More

Over the Summer, Clint Eastwood (the first name you think of when it comes to either rock ‘n’ roll or musicals) took the Broadway smash Jersey Read More

Disney’s latest collaboration with Marvel, an adaptation of Big Hero 6, easily earns the superlatives I’m about to bestow upon it. It’s visually engaging, solidly structured, offers Read More

Like a reprieve from the gods in a world awash in cinema mediocrity comes the 4K restoration of Howard Hawks’ most archetypal film, Only Angels Have Read More

Hollywood doesn’t make movies like Interstellar anymore. In Tinseltown, science fiction is not taken seriously. Instead, it’s all dogfights in space, or ragtag groups gathered together Read More