Criterion’s new Blu-ray for Waters’s transitional masterpiece gave us ants in our pants.
Criterion releasing it during Pride Month proves that their sense of humor is just as sick as that of John Waters and Divine.
Waters’s film receives a pristine 4K restoration and some solid supplements from Criterion.
Waters discusses the changing politics of the ’70s, Divine getting raped by a lobster, and more.
Waters interweaves his critique of noxious domesticity into the characters at the core of Multiple Maniacs.
In the film, Alvin and the Chipmunks proudly align themselves not with Dr. Demento, but with Kidz Bop.
The film lacks perspective beyond a rather limited preoccupation with the details of Hunter’s personal life.
The Criterion Collection reaches the Great Beyond with their miraculous 4K Blu-ray of Bruce Beresford’s Breaker Morant.
Wiktor Ericsson emphasizes one of the strongest and most distinctive features of Joseph Sarno’s aesthetic: his concentration on female pleasure.
Stole has a devoted cult following that dates back to the 1970s, when she became an outrageously wacky fixture in the trash comedies of John Waters.
Luckily for Divine, he had a network of misfits and castoffs to support and, eventually, launch him into the limelight.
Rewind This!, a nostalgia trip through the heyday of VHS, fondly examines the importance of fandom in the 1980s and beyond.
It’s generally agreed that films fall into one of three categories: The Good, The Bad, and the So-Bad-It’s-Good.
From a child murderer to a furry monster to two more Stone creations, they comprise a choice selection of scoundrels.
Mansome is only fitfully amusing and doesn’t have anything particularly interesting to say.
Entertainers focused on their own sense of self, such as performance artist Brother Theodore and filmmaker/actor Crispin Glover, are wonderfully loopy stunt interviews.
There was a line all the way down Second Street off Second Avenue in Manhattan last night.
Ann-Margaret’s performance is like a rambunctious asterisk to Susan Sontag’s essay published the same year.
The original Hairspray is just funky and enthusiastic enough to make its ham-handed moral go down easy.
It Came from Kuchar unfortunately doesn’t delve very deep into the Kuchar brothers as complex human beings.