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For a solid twenty years, Tom Cruise consistently hit with audiences and critics alike thanks to his steadfast decision to work with the best directors in the industry, resulting in one of the most prolific and successful rosters of films Hollywood has ever seen. Then he jumped on Oprah’s couch and called Matt Lauer glib.
Read MoreScorsese would never again make a film this unwieldy again, the last time he’d not be fully in control. And that is what makes New York, New York so special.
Read MoreAll things being equal, not dealing with heavy cans of fragile film reels seems ideal for people in the business of showing movies. So who still does this and why?
Read MoreIn this latest Apes Retrospective, we dig into Matt Reeves’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and War for the Planet of the Apes.
Read MoreIn this latest Apes Retrospective, we dig into Battle for the Planet of the Apes and the 2001 reboot of the original Planet of the Apes.
Read MoreIn days of yore, you'd go to see a movie, the lights would go down, and just before the feature presentation (if you were lucky) you'd get to watch a cartoon. The Golden Age of Animation was a renaissance of technical and artistic development, and without these artists foundational work you would never see the likes of Disney or Pixar or even Studio Ghibli.
Read MoreWe all have to play the hands we’re dealt, but few nepo babies have made art on the level of The Legend of the Stardust Brothers.
Read MoreForget Ryan Gosling and forget being a real human being—real ones know that 1997’s Drive has the diamond in the rough, the jewel in the Wal-Mart DTV bin, that you really need to watch. Mark Dacascos, Kardeem Hardison, and Brittany Murphy team up to drive you wild in this underseen, underloved, and over-the-top action film.
Read MoreFor viewers unfamiliar, Tsui Hark’s Green Snake is part of a proud tradition of Xianxia films. The big difference is that this one stars international superstar Maggie Cheung.
Read MoreTo quote X-Files, “I want to believe.”
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