The women of the film certainly deserve better, as they’re often relegated to the role of victim, harmed or murdered simply to propel the plot along.
A heartfelt retro flashback littered with pop-culture iconography and much slang, it focuses on the importance of friendship and loyalty rather than social standing.
This scathing Vietnam War-set film finds an army cameraman embedded with a small infantry platoon on their final search-and-destroy mission.
The film is ripe with powerful subtext, specifically how greed, celebrity, and technology help to form a misguided sense of opportunity that keeps the working class downtrodden.
Stanley Kubrick's The Killing is a blisteringly taut decimation of post-World War II entitlement.
Our chat with the Short Term 12 director centers around trauma, non-verbal communication, and more.
This classic Los Angeles-set neo-noir with teeth finally arrives on Blu-ray in an indispensable package from Twilight Time.
It takes a confined, banal real-world location and makes it completely dynamic.
Hill’s pummeling debut feature starring Charles Bronson arrives on Blu-ray looking as muscular and stout as ever.
Amy Seimetz’s intoxicating slice of genre revisionism earns its “neo” prefix, envisioning a brightly sinister world where desperation is the new normal.
Ken Loach’s breezy scribble about lowlife redemption and drunken buffoonery isn’t so much heavy-handed as it is charmingly weightless.
Instead of long takes, which are lovingly utilized in Step Up 3D, Jon M. Chu opts for increasing volatility in the editing room.
The film is unconcerned with historical complexity, just the seamless flow of Hollywood-style storytelling that lazily connects one musical number to the next.
The film’s interest in social themes remains background fodder within a far more generic good-versus-evil narrative.
Walter Hill thoughtfully regards the pummeling power of weaponry at work.
Gangster Squad is a perfect example of Hollywood hypocrisy.
Surfing is a heavy-handed metaphor for freedom and a distraction from reality in Otelo Burning.
Stone returns to the grit, grime, and blood of his glory days with this breakneck SoCal-set thriller.
Like its intrepid firefighter subjects, Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez’s Burn initially seems juiced up on too much adrenaline.
Do we really need another cautionary tale about an ambitious drug dealer dramatically falling from grace?