M Categories Anniversaries Movies September 18, 2021 Mommie Dearest turned the celebrity biopic into a camp delight The “nothing but warts” portrayal of Joan Crawford turns 40, & remains an eye-popping display of pathos, kitsch & unintended hilarity.
“ Categories Anniversaries Movies August 18, 2021 “It’s Just You And Me Now, Sport”: Manhunter at 35 We look back at Michael Mann's moody, underappreciated take on the Hannibal Lector (sorry Lecktor) mythos, thirty-five years later.
T Categories Anniversaries Movies August 15, 2021 The romantic tragedy of David Cronenberg’s The Fly On its 35th anniversary, a look back at both the gold standard in body horror, & an affecting love story.
R Categories Anniversaries August 2, 2021 Revisiting the calamitous Howard the Duck at 35 Howard the Duck is an utter mess, and the costume is terrifying, but at least it's distinct in its failure!
E Categories Anniversaries Movies July 10, 2021 Escape from New York at 40: Snake still stands supreme John Carpenter's Kurt Russell-starring dystopian actioner boasts one of western cinema's a-number-one anti-heroes.
T Categories Anniversaries Features July 9, 2021 Two-Lane Blacktop at 50 (years, not miles) A half-century on, we look at the fast and furious American arthouse car flick that became, against all odds, a landmark of independent cinema.
& Categories Anniversaries Movies Reviews July 2, 2021 “I’ll finally be free” – Psycho III at 35 Anthony Perkins - Norman Bates himself - steps behind the camera to make a morbidly funny and surprisingly moving Psycho sequel.
A Categories Anniversaries Features June 29, 2021 A.I. Artificial Intelligence and the love that makes a real boy At 20, the Stanley Kubrick Steven Spielberg science-fiction collaboration "A.I." remains a moving, haunting study of the human heart.
& Categories Anniversaries Features June 26, 2021 “Bears wear hats”: “The Great Muppet Caper” at 40 Kermit and company's second big-screen outing is a hodgepodge comedy partially redeemed by the great Charles Grodin.
5 Categories Anniversaries Features June 25, 2021 50 years on, “Klute” is still its own kind of noir Alan J. Pakula's first installment of his Paranoia Trilogy remains a slyly feminist tale anchored by breakout work from Jane Fonda.
