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Bringing Down the House and the lost art of the race comedy.
Drinking cerveza and chopping it up with My Sensei, Mr. Quentin Tarantino.
Home from the Hill (1960) is a powerful display of Vincente Minnelli's oft-overlooked and commanding mise en scène.
Watching it is like being in a busy, successful restaurant.
Witness the ineptitude of future MCU directors the Russo Brothers in their sophomore feature, Welcome to Collinwood (2002).
The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth will be projected in select locations by a bird (me).
Dreams in Nightmares deserves a word-of-mouth audience.
Mr. Burton is a poignant, melancholy biopic about one of Old Hollywood’s eminent, but most underappreciated movie stars.
I’ll be handling projection duties for The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth.
The Whisper Man is held back by its flat, uninspired Netflix production.
Turns out I wasn’t supposed to be writing about the production, but how was I supposed to know?
The Whisper Man is little more than an overlong Criminal Minds episode.
Maybe the darkest noir is the noir that lies to you.
The guy is evil, but the film hates the woman anyway.
Three bad predictions and a foreboding.
A forgotten comedy of great charm.
A great film noir buried underneath a plodding moralistic plot.
Untitled Home Invasion Romance is Biggs’ debut as a filmmaker and it's a biting satire of his own attempt to stage a career resurgence.
Another billion dollars’ worth of adequacy.
Notes on horror, science, and fatalism.
Masters of the Universe has accomplished something that’s been missing from the movies; it’s recovered the life of the soul.
An obscure adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel starring Fat City almuni Stacy Keach and Susan Tyrrell.
The living legend talks Spike Lee, Robert Altman, Jean-Luc Godard, and more.
The late actress talks about A Bug's Life nearly 30 years ago in Hollywood.
The late filmmaker talks about AFI, the role of intuition in directing, his early influences, and more.
The late actor talks to Bobbie Wygant about his 1979 Western comedy directed by Robert Aldrich.
The directors talk at the world premiere of Robert Rodriguez's film in Austin on January 15, 1996.
Kermode talks at length about Christopher Nolan's latest film.
The legendary director on Robert Altman, Steven Spielberg, Rob Zombie, Eli Roth, David Cronenberg, and more.
The actress on how she really feels about her character in the 2008 Hollywood hipster classic (500) Days of Summer.