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

Carlo Petrini, an ebullient Italian dreamer/visionary and benefactor of fine food and drink is the subject of Stefano Sardo’s breezy testimonial tribute to Petrini, Slow Food Read More

Housebound is a rare post-modern horror-comedy that achieves its laughs and its scares organically. Digs at the haunted house genre don’t come at the expense of Read More

He can’t sleep. He barely makes ends meet. He spends his nights rummaging around Los Angeles, stealing metal and other items that he can pawn and/or Read More

Horns opens with some trite voiceover about fallen angels followed by one character asking another, “Are you horny?” By the end of the film there’s some Read More

It is a great comfort that a restored 4K version of the epiphanal silent film classic The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is opening on October 31, Read More

Any parent who’s socking away money for a child’s education understands the anguish that comes along with that investment. Hundreds of thousands of dollars (per child), Read More

We’ve had scary dolls and possessed puzzle boxes. There’ve been evil TV signals and horrific “don’t-watch-it-or-you’ll-die” videotapes. Even computers and the internet have been known to Read More

The mere mention of his name gives criminals pause. He once completed an “impossible task” for one of the most notorious Russian mobsters in all of Read More

It’s such an overused cinematic cliche that it almost demands its own subgenre. Call it the “Grumpy Old Man/Awkward Youngster Bonding” comedy/drama. You know the kind: Read More

Coming of age by way of family turmoil is a moth-eaten theme that often tumbles into sappy melodrama territory. In the hands of director Gregg Araki Read More