Surprisingly mundane, given the central figure, the film puts the “lesson” in “civics lesson.”
Between this and Dreyer’s Master of the House, one could have a real ironic Mother’s Day film festival.
An apologia for all future Susan Smiths, Euripides’s filicidal classic Medea is a simple story.
The scenario makes the torment that only child Jaime goes through a much more universal and generic toil.
The tough but tender Beautiful Thing is one of the most honest and moving gay youth dramas in recent memory.
L’Atalante stands as one of the most beautiful and rich celebrations of human connection in the history of cinema.
Takashi Miike’s film is as morose and disturbing as it is infused with a sense of the madcap.
The naturalistic sexuality of Vigo’s only feature film is even still ahead of its time.
For all its facades, nothing in the film reads quite as false as the final scene.
Fans will be happy just to have anything from the original series on DVD, and the “limited edition” cachet is simply fanboy gravy.
If IMDb is to be trusted, and if you liked The Godfather Part II, you should therefore enjoy Carpetbaggers.
Moody yet mischievous, this multicultural mafia mash-up might make a mad Miike admirer of you.
This is probably the closest to a Franco experience as its Freedom Fries-eating target audience is likely to get.
Probably the film best equipped to fill that black-camp-karaoke-musical-horror-claymé-domestic-dramedy void in your DVD library.
John Cassavetes transforms Gena Rowlands into his own little Pam Grier.
Star performances don’t come by more brashly inviting than Gena Rowland’s immortal .44 diva.
Tour of Duty is the perfect souvenir item for any Kids in the Hall fan too cool for the T-shirt.
The film is a light and playful look at the Manchester music scene.
On DVD, Winterbottom’s film is a cult favorite in-the-making.