Everything falls dutifully into place.
We’re afraid this set might have priced itself clear out of range of anyone but die-hard SCTV fans.
This is a documentary that can tell the sometimes bitter truth and still conclude with an unambiguously heartening flourish.
This treatise on how homosexual sociology thrived before being validated is required viewing.
Operatic is scarcely the word for Sergio Leone’s impassioned riffs on the western tradition.
Sergio Leone’s cinema, now fully embraced by cinephiles and fanboys alike, is practically a genre unto itself.
The Chronological Donald covers almost the first full decade of Disney’s Donald Duck cartoons.
Disney presents the world’s most famous neuter and his unabashed swan dive into apolitical, sexless, consumerist passivity.
Hot blood carouses thorough the veins of this handsome Hammer Dracula installment, even if Christopher Lee apparently took a cold shower before filming started.
Its musty, jaundiced sensuality characterizes Hammer’s blending of gothic tradition with modern prurience.
You’ve gotta love the type of show that can name their sketches “Power of My Cock,” “Fat Hitch-hiker,” and “Stinky Pink.”
The success of The Five Obstructions depends almost distressingly on the audience’s cheeky sense of bad faith toward Lars von Trier.
On the album, it doesn’t sound like Prince is really trying to reach for the self-inflated magnitude the label requires.
Throughout, the direct segues between songs turn Summer’s career into a luscious DJ set.
Apparently, Robert “Hot Lips” Altman was ready to be reborn as Maya Deren.
The long-neglected middle child of art cinema’s triptych of psychodramas surrounding misplaced/mistaken/stolen female identities
The film ends up too steeped in surrogate conscience twaddle to even be bothered to provoke a response, positive or negative.
“Have yourself a merry little Christmas, it may be your last. Next year we may all be living in the past.”
Meet Me in St. Louis remains one of the most vital of musical films.
Films that have gained immeasurably from their star’s eyes: The Wind, Sunset Boulevard, The Fury and now Yossi & Jagger.