Wes Craven’s controversial classic horror film uses unrefined formal techniques and realistic content to unsettle viewers and examine the horrors of bloodlust.
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Featuring horror legend Christopher Lee and plenty of Gothic atmosphere, this tale of witchcraft in a New England town is a spooky though backward-looking treat.
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The Fog is a compelling mood piece, with atmospheric scares and great low-budget special effects.
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Millennium Actress is a beautiful examination of the relationships between actors and the movies they make, and viewers and the movies they watch.
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John Sturges’ Western plays like a minor variation of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
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Twenty years later, David Gordon Green’s debut feature George Washington remains a beautiful cinematic memory.
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Humphrey Bogart’s final film is a bruising noir and a chance to watch the titan of Old Hollywood spar with Rod Steiger, another acting icon.
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Sidney Lumet’s 1971 heist thriller starring Sean Connery is diverting genre fun that’s made more interesting through its experimental formal presentation.
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Before they made Wild Wild Country, Maclain and Chapman Way directed this winning documentary about the Portland Mavericks, an independent baseball team run by TV actor (and father of Kurt) Bing Russell.
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Joe’s 2015 feature captures the karmic drift between the waking and dreaming worlds.
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Like an Expanded Universe novel, Solo opens up the Star Wars world in imaginative, if inessential, ways.
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The Star Wars anthology film Rogue One brings a focus to sacrifice, heroism, and the cost of war, with a rousing and entertaining exploration of the backstory to A New Hope.
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With his final film in the Star Wars saga, George Lucas creates a shocking, beautiful tragedy.
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A full appreciation of Attack of the Clones requires the upheaval of some established viewpoints on the film.
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Twenty years after it launched the Prequel Trilogy, The Phantom Menace remains a pivotal film in both the Star Wars saga and the transformation of global film culture.
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Christine finds John Carpenter working at the height of his formal powers, transforming a ridiculous concept into a thrilling film.
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Return of the Jedi is both a technological marvel and one of cinema’s most powerful redemption narratives.
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Kindergarten Cop is sentimental, but also a strong encapsulation of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s strengths as a performer.
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While it is often dismissed as a prime example of bad, American action films, Michael Bay’s Armageddon is actually carefully constructed, developing its film style in service of a powerful work of American propaganda.
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Anton looks back at the original telling and the two myths of Hollywood it presents.
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