This relentlessly cruel rejiggering makes every Evil Dead film before seem like Sunday school.
Juwanna Man is rated PG-13 for “Lil’ Kim’s booty not included.”
It’s difficult to pay homage to bad television let alone bad television oblivious to its own subversions.
Mexican Bus Ride is a beautiful, spiritual film, albeit a messy one.
The Bourne Identity is too Hollywood to ever really sink its teeth into its protagonist’s existential crisis.
Matthew Barney’s five-part, out-of-sequence Cremaster Cycle culminates with Cremaster 3, his most accomplished work to date.
Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down set the unfortunate standard by which Hollywood shoots and maims soldiers for public consumption.
“Welcome to my church, where we worship money,” says the film’s Czech ghoul. Words fit for Bruckheimer.
Don’t be fooled by the fireside polemic that opens Callie Khouri’s The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood.
The film is the closest that Buñuel came to making a bona fide suspense thriller.
These shorts are breathless reminders of what queer cinema was like before Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss.
Cheng discusses his up-and-coming film career and his trip to Cannes with the cast and crew of Hollywood Ending.
John Sayles’s agenda is a very leftist one yet his execution is so carefully and subtly pointed to ever rely on smarmy, easy answers.
Malcolm D. Lee’s Undercover Brother is a witty piece of genre deconstruction.
It could be the most authentic representation of wilderness life ever put on screen.
David Lynch is less concerned with self-reference than he is with charting the uncomfortable crawlspace between boyhood and manhood.
In The Sum of All Fears, Evil is fond of anecdotes and opera music, speaks with ghoulish inflections, and consumes only luxury food products.
Christopher Nolan knows a good ice field when he sees one.
Notorious C.H.O. is Margaret Cho’s very bawdy vagina monologue.
El Bruto is relatively apolitical but that’s because Luis Buñuel is drunk on animal magnetism.
The film feeds on the imagination of children and relishes the joy they find in creation.