It’s 1908 in London, and Miss Sonia Winter (the great Diana Rigg ), a strong-willed and staunch feminist who holds aspirations to become a journalist lays before the heads of a notable newspaper a sto...

“Why do you like me so much?” Charles loves Laura. I mean, he really loves her. So much so that it’s painful. But…when we meet Charles ( John Heard ), he’s no longer with Laura ( Mary Beth Hurt ). The...

Watching the documentary, LYNCH (one) , that’s included on Criterion ’s gorgeous release of David Lynch ’s Inland Empire , we hear Lynch himself say that this film is “an experiment.” BUT he also make...

What do you get when you combine the elevated emotions of a melodrama and the seedy, back-stabbing beats and visuals of a noir? This concoction is the exact recipe for Michael Curtiz ’s delectably dar...

A swinging sixties marital comedy with the charming Shirley MacLaine and the prim and proper Richard Attenborough ? Sure! Why not? It’s an innocent request from the workaholic brasserie manufacturer R...

What does family really mean? Is it the people who are related by blood through no choice of your own? Or is it more? Is it the people who choose to protect you and stick with you – the people who gen...

In a family-owned butcher shop situated in a sun-scorched small town, we meet Sara ( Laura Galán ) – an overweight teenager who is constantly bombarded with the merciless bullying and gossip of other...

Can a movie that is a mess also be considered genius? Well, that is the perpetual debate about Orson Welles ’ The Lady from Shanghai . Based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King , this...

On again, off again. In love, out of love. Going back to school, starting a new job. Everything is fluid and everything is changing in the whimsical and lustful drama from French director Jacques Audi...

On again, off again. In love, out of love. Going back to school, starting a new job. Everything is fluid and everything is changing in the whimsical and lustful drama from French director Jacques Audi...

We’ll call them the classic, the prequel, and the sequel. Breaking the mold of the cop/detective story that audiences of the time were all too familiar with, the writers ( Felix Chong and Alan Mak ) a...

I must admit, this one has me conflicted. Based on Sidney Kingsley ’s Broadway play of the same name, William’s Wyler ’s adaptation of Detective Story deals with a handful of rather outdated themes th...

“Jaaaaaaaaaammmmmeeeessss!” We’re only about one month into 2023 and there is already a film to come out that has left me completely and utterly stunned. It shocks you; it makes you squirm, and it hyp...

“I’ve written myself into my screenplay.” Leave to Charlie Kaufman (with the help of “Donald Kaufman”) to pen one of the most neurotic and meta stories ever that also manages to be mind-blowingly inno...

How does one cure a drought-ridden town in the middle of Kansas? Well, you call the handsome and charming rainmaker of course! And maybe he can bring more than just a little rain to this Midwest rural...