Refn discusses his love of fairy tales, falling through the rabbit hole of streaming, and more.
Perhaps no director is quite as under-the-radar termitic as Howard Hawks.
The filmmakers rest their depressive character study on the able shoulders of actor Michael Rapaport.
The day I interviewed Kuras and Thavisouk Phrasavath, congratulations were in order.
We finally managed to get Eric Kohn on the podcast after food poisoning (mine) and poor planning kept him off.
The exuberant Carole Lombard became emblematic of the whole screwball comedy genre of the 1930s.
No measure of ostensible abstinence can alter the fact that Twilight ultimately hinges on a hilariously skeevy implicit suggestion.
Kevin Rafferty’s documentary of a doozie of an Ivy League football faceoff in November 1968 keeps it simple.
We’re back again with our official “Best Introductory Segway Ever” and return guest Mike D’Angelo.
Bolt is perfectly amiable but rarely brisk, with neither its premise nor its execution quite inspired enough to elicit more than faint admiration.
A highly interesting aspect of del Toro’s films is their interest in the ambiguous, morally muddled hero.
The film understands itself as a fantasy of escape that, like Shakespeare’s lush artwork, hopes to both rouse the senses and one’s conscience.
Antarctica features enough sweat-laden sex scenes to thaw three meandering romantic dramedies.
The film dumps on audiences a plot that consists of 500-some-odd puzzle pieces that all come together exactly as you expect.
Desplechin’s familial trauma is constant, but his art is for himself.
We’re back like Death Metal Disco and thrice as evil.
Well, that didn’t last.
As far as Christmas films go, you could do much worse than How About You.
The General isn’t likely to be the favorite opus of Keaton’s purist fans, but it’s the one with the trappings of ambition and historical poesy.
Maybe our mothers were right all along. Maybe true beauty really does come from within. Or doesn’t it?
The end result not only constitutes an uncomfortable collusion of fact and fiction but also suggests we’re being indoctrinated into a cult.