“ Categories Anniversaries Movies December 18, 2021 “Apparently He Has Been Selecting Low-Power Jokes.” Hey, Somebody Has To Write About Heartbeeps A re-evaluation of Andy Kaufman's biggest film role leads to more or less the same conclusions.
R Categories Anniversaries Features Movies December 12, 2021 Reevaluating Billy Wilder’s final film, Buddy Buddy The legendary filmmaker's last bow is a fascinating misfire starring Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon (and a bonkers Klaus Kinski).
“ Categories Anniversaries Movies December 2, 2021 “You’re not curator of anything!” Ragtime at 40 Milos Forman's 1981 adaptation of the E.L. Doctorow novel survived a change of directors to become a fascinating cult curio 40 years on.
H Categories Anniversaries Features Movies November 22, 2021 Human Again: Civilization and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast Disney's 1991 adaptation of the French fairytale is an all-time classic of animation whose legacy extends beyond the picture itself.
A Categories Anniversaries Movies November 16, 2021 Amélie remain an ode to living in the now, even 20 years later Years of jokes and dismissals haven't diminished the delightful fantasy of their modern French fairy tale.
“ Categories Anniversaries Movies Reviews November 9, 2021 “Barbie doesn’t have bruises” Sid & Nancy at 35 Alex Cox's Sid Vicious/Nancy Spungen biopic is harrowing, but his unsentimental eye and the picture's tremendous performances are indelible.
“ Categories Anniversaries Movies October 30, 2021 “You Don’t Know What Death Is!”: Halloween II at 40 Halloween II, the 1981 sequel, may be better than many of its successors, but that doesn't make it good.
O Categories Anniversaries Movies October 26, 2021 On the Line at 20: still dreadful, but fascinating through a queer lens On the Line, *NSYNC singer Lance Bass' painful Chicago romcom tried to sell a sanitized, straight image of the singer—one that clashed with his true sexuality.
A Categories Anniversaries Movies October 10, 2021 A Celebration Of Specialness: True Stories at 35 David Byrne's winsome wisp of a film didn't get the attention it deserved upon release, but its charms persist 35 years later.
B Categories Anniversaries Features Movies September 24, 2021 Boosting the signal of 2001’s cult space Western musical The American Astronaut Twenty years on, Cory McAbee's singular cult film is nearly as impossible to find as it is to look away from.