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Assessing recent films by Josh and Benny Safdie and the consequences of their professional split.
The Man I Love and the formal flexibility of director Raoul Walsh and star Ida Lupino.
Song Sung Blue is, for the most part, an inspirational, fun underdog story.
Remembering Richard Chamberlain and going through his autobiography Shattered Love.
It’s no coincidence that the worst titles released in 2025 are either franchise continuations or based on rehashed ideas.
Anaconda won’t make any Top 10 lists, but it’s a nice alternative this time of year.
Why isn’t Ella McCay coming out in France? I’m cancelling my vacation.
Where Seven Veils is generous with its narrative clarity, The Adjuster withholds almost everything.
James L. Brooks returns with Ella McCay, his best film in over two decades.
Conversing with My Sensei.
The Housemaid is a hoot, with a commanding performance by Sydney Sweeney.
On Chloé Zhao's insipid, meaningless Hamnet.
Anaconda’s attempt to satirize Hollywood’s creative ineptitude is less successful than its old-fashioned humor.
Hollywood’s stopped trusting audiences.
Locked is impressively light on its feet for a thriller with such a thin premise.
And what we’ve lost.
The unusual biopic Song Sung Blue is honest about show business in a way that’s sappy and revealing.
Neil Diamond would be proud.
Flight Risk is an inept B-movie made more baffling by the A-list talent involved.
Nia DaCosta has brilliantly updated Ibsen.
The Ugly Stepsister is a nasty and hilarious rebuke to the idealized version of a classic fairy tale.
The filmmaker talks to Matt Neglia about Marty Supreme and more in this new interview.
The filmmaker talks about interviewing Louis Armstrong and Anne Bancroft in high school, getting coffee for Edward R. Murrow, and his new film Ella McCay.
The director talks about Dead Man's Wire, studio politics, and what it takes to survive in Hollywood.
The writer-director-producer talks about his new film Ella McCay with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson.
The cast and crew talk about the making of Rob Reiner's 1985 road movie in this 26-minute featurette.
Cusack's entire four minute performance in Rob Reiner's Stand By Me.
The filmmaker talks about writing a play, not rushing his last movie, and fatherhood in this January 2025 interview.
The last eight minutes of Peter Bogdanovich's 1971 masterpiece.
The actors talk to Josh Horowitz about their new movie and more.