The film is a wry tribute to the idealistic kids forced to follow in some mighty big footsteps.
Can Malick’s dream-like film grammar resonate when set in the modern world?
Opening a new season with the Daleks has always been a temptation for the producers of Doctor Who.
This is a father-son love story, and it’s caustic, complex, and utterly compelling.
You really can’t miss the irony in the Killing Them Softly poster designs, as both of them are about as soft as a shell casing.
Long before Stephen Dorff went Somewhere, he made his screen debut in this horror oddity .
Brooks’s spoof is, at least in part, about more than just Star Wars.
Maybe it’s time to let go of some of that ’80s love.
No, it’s not just you.
The shaggy-dog element in the fourth story in To Rome with Love is its very casual surrealism.
Caroline Martel’s video installation Industry/Cinema places ephemeral films alongside more familiar ones.
I’ll sidestep the usual throat-clearing about the thought process behind my all-time 10-best-movies list.
At the center of all three of films is a deep tension regarding heroism and its tangible impact on the mass corruption infecting much of society’s institutions.
For many years, I maintained a Top 10 list. It was changing all the time, but by the mid-1980s, I had pretty well nailed it down.
If you read my “Understanding Screenwriting” column at The House, you may be aware that I generally do not do Top 10 lists.
Preferential classification in the arts, based on arbitrary choice or empirical study, has a tendency to beget among the chattering classes some sort of mass hysteria.
To choose only 10 films for this list was a task at once simple and impossible.
Summertime, and the gimmickry’s easy.
They’re also unassailable in their perfection, and could easily fall at the top of any all-time best list arrived at by consensus.
In compiling my Top 10 film list, I tried to avoid obvious choices based on general consensus.