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Principal cast assembles for rehearsals on The (Continuing?) Adventures of Cliff Booth.
Celine Song’s Materialists strains to break beyond its poorly-written screenplay.
Airport, despite being overshadowed by its parody Airplane!, remains a solid and underrated blockbuster.
Celine Song's Materialists is an acutely observed romantic comedy.
Chewing and clawing the script “sides” on the set of The Continuing Adventures of Cliff Booth.
Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme starts strong, but strains against the director’s straightjacketed aesthetic.
Passion is still De Palma, for better and worse.
Last Year at Marienbad (Cinema Survey 24).
Absolute Dominion could've been a decent movie if it had any convictions or ideas at all.
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Lost Highway, All About My Mother (Cinema Survey 23).
David Lynch and his relationship with the star, worshipped on other planets in other galaxies.
More than any of their other collaborations, Lost Highway shows the differing sensibilities of David Lynch and editor Mary Sweeney.
F1 may be an exercise in corporate management, but it's also an exciting pastiche of Jerry Bruckheimer’s 1990s blockbusters.
The highly anticipated follow up to 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later is the worst of the three films by far.
Looking back on Western film Shane (1953) after a weekend in Jackson Hole.
Len Wiseman's The Ballerina reminds us why the femme fatale format works & what has kept interested in the subject matter over the past few decades.
Argentine Noir film The Bitter Stems is exceptional.
Films reminiscent of the humid hot summers in Baltimore.
Román Viñoly Barreto’s 1953 film The Black Vampire edges on horror and brings something different to the typical noir films of that time.
Karate Kid: Legends is an unnecessarily complicated legacy sequel that suffers from comparisons to the Netflix show Cobra Kai.
The Maysles brothers 1969 film Salesman explores capitalism, sales, and religion.
The filmmaker talks about everything from Bottle Rocket to The Phoenician Scheme.
Robert Rodriguez talks to the director of Here, I Want to Hold Your Hand, Back to the Future, and more.
The late director talks about his neo noir starring Paul Newman, Gene Hackman, Reese Witherspoon, and many others.
The actor talks about his espionage franchise and his long career in the movies.
The director and actor talk about their work on Angel Heart.
The actor talks about his brilliant career in this two hour interview recorded on December 11, 1997.
The director talks about his breakthrough film Trainspotting.
The filmmaker talks about Trey Parker and Matt Stone's 2004 marionette masterpiece.
The filmmaker and actor talk about their iconic collaboration on the Stephen King adaptation.