Aldrich’s 1956 film is a relentless investigation into moral compromise.
Aldrich’s underrated, challenging, and brutally violent 1972 western has been outfitted with a superb audio commentary.
A good transfer and a great audio commentary pivotally contextualize this neurotic and lastingly influential American melodrama.
A film about history that avoids it entirely. Not out of cowardice or lack of nerve, but because the head-on acknowledgement of Europe’s long 20th century is quite simply too painful.
The most recent Rollin films to make their Blu-ray debut mark a significant departure for the filmmaker.
Epstein provides only a cursory understanding of Marvin as cultural icon.
Hag horror doesn't get any better (read: demented) than What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
List-making is an exercise in futility, but as futile exercises go, it’s one of the best.
This savage film noir masterpiece given a hefty and necessary DVD release from the Criterion Collection.
Robert Aldrich’s Kiss Me Deadly ups Spillane’s ante and calls his bluff.
Any film connoisseur worth their salt knows that the purveyors of this genre aimed low but shot high.
Robert Aldrich’s work on Baby Jane was already a study in hysteria, and his style for Charlotte is, if anything, even more ornate.
Bette Davis and Agnes Moorehead overact against each other like Miles Davis and John Coltrane traded fours.
All of Robert Aldrich’s early work is intriguing, but Autumn Leaves is his secret gem.