Venom, a suspense thriller set in London about a botched kidnapping made even worse by an on-the-loose black mamba snake, has all the trappings...
At the time of this writing, Viola Davis recently became the 18th EGOT’”that rare category of performer who has won at least one Emmy,...
There has always been a sense of dystopianism and apocalyptic anxiety in the science fiction genre, and the 1970s’”with its worldwide recession, oil shortages,...
Fifty years after its unsuccessful theatrical release and later elevation to cult status, Douglas Trumbull’s Silent Running is a dated, but still intriguing piece...
In 1953, nobody knew who Audrey Hepburn was. She had played some minor roles in a handful of movies, but she was, for all...
Ghost, the highest grossing film of 1990, was a unique and unexpected blockbuster stitched together out of an unlikely mix of genre traits, creative...
The late 1970s and ’80s were the heyday of Hollywood adolescent misfit movies, which partially explains why Troop Zero, which is clearly descended (although...
Days of Thunder, which reunited star Tom Cruise, director Tony Scott, and producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer, is such a naked attempt to...
Disparaged by French critics during in its initial run in 1969, Jean-Pierre Melville’s Army of Shadows (L’Armée des ombres) has enjoyed a critical re-evaluation...
W. Eugene Smith was one of the great photojournalists of the 20th century. More than just a brilliant and prolific photographer, he was a...