Nomadland is a film that exists somewhere between reality and fantasy. It’s both unrelenting in its hand-to-mouth realism and transcendent, with a dreamlike sto...
Intentionally or not, Westerns have a strange way of reflecting our contemporary political and sociological conditions. Consider Sam Peckinpah’s brutal 1969 gam...
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Carl Reiner, one of the greatest comedic innovators of the last six decades, died on Monday, June 29 in his home in Beverly Hills, California. He was 98. Follow...
The first thing you might notice about the new HBO series, Perry Mason, is that the titular character is not a lawyer, but a lowdown private dick. This could be...
In the modern-day horror film, haunted houses are rarely depicted as large medieval manors with gothic spires and stained-glass windows. That image went out of ...
When Korean director Bong Joon Ho took the stage at last year’s 77th Annual Golden Globe Awards to accept the Best Foreign Film honor for his subversive drama, ...
The '80s will forever be known as the decade of overindulgence and unabashed carnality. Everything took on a bright veneer, almost blinding in its imagery, and ...
There are a lot of interviews spread throughout the new three-part documentary, Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All-Time, but one of the best moments is w...
You’ve probably heard it a million times in the last month — these are unprecedented times. Whether you call it a quarantine, or just another day in your chill ...