Initially a box office flop, Kathryn Bigelow’s stylish horror-Western became an iconic cult classic.
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Kathryn Bigelow’s directorial debut has its standout elements but is overall too detached for its own good.
As the year winds down, we celebrate the films of Hollywood’s most high-profile female filmmaker, from her novel genre beginnings to her prestige political present.
Sam Raimi brought his camp sensibilities to Marvel’s friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, launching a bright new era for superhero filmmaking.
Sam Raimi’s most forgettable director-for-hire job is a painfully earnest baseball drama starring Kevin Costner.
Sam Raimi’s director-for-hire job helming this chilling crime drama turns out to be one of his most compelling works.
Sam Raimi and Sharon Stone’s quickdraw revenger is stylish and skillfully crafted.
Sam Raimi trades scares for slapstick in the thin-but-entertaining third entry in the Evil Dead series.
Years before Spider-Man, Sam Raimi delivered a fully original and fully entertaining superhero tale with his 1990 effort.
Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell reunite to give their classic horror film a campy sequel-reboot that arguably surpasses the original.
Sam Raimi’s collaboration with the Coen Brothers is an infamous disasterpiece, but there are nuggets of insight to be found.
Sam Raimi’s breakthrough feature is still a gory good time of cartoon logic and every bodily fluid in the books.
One of Sam Raimi’s early film-school shorts is a shaggy murder mystery soaked in future promise.
For this spookiest of months, we run down the filmography of one of horror’s self-made maestros.
Park Chan-wook’s most recent film is an erotically charged but non-salacious look at women finding shelter & understanding in each other.
Park chan-wook breaks up his tales of blood and vengeance with a bittersweet tale of the thin, romantic line between compassion and delusion.
Park Chan-wook’s take on vampire movies is bleak, creepy and undeniably sexy.
The man who arguably put South Korean cinema on the world map is the focus of this month’s retrospectives.