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The unique and remarkably brief movie career of megastar Ali MacGraw.
Otto Preminger’s classic shows that it’s the femme fatale who’s trapped.
One Night Only is a limp, unsexy satire that falls wildly short of its interesting premise.
The Samurai and the Prisoner is another excellent film by suis generis director Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
On the legendary director's under-discussed 1951 film.
It’s not Eli Roth’s best, though.
And I Want Your Sex is far from it.
Videotapes at the end of their noble run.
Rosebush Pruning is merely shock for shock’s sake.
Redux Redux isn’t a great film, but the McManus brothers could make one in the future.
20 years after the last videotape, it’s time to celebrate what makes the format special.
Blue Heron doesn't evoke the haunting of an unknowable person, but the emptiness of living for 90 minutes with people who don’t seem to try.
Untitled Home Invasion Romance is Biggs’ debut as a filmmaker and it's a biting satire of his own attempt to stage a career resurgence.
Another billion dollars’ worth of adequacy.
Notes on horror, science, and fatalism.
Masters of the Universe has accomplished something that’s been missing from the movies; it’s recovered the life of the soul.
Women’s empowerment as fetish.
From what Tweets, YouTube shows indicate.
There goes the Bronza Age.
Not an outrage, not a good idea, just a tiresome third thing.
A review of what has come out and what is to come, 2026 has been an outstanding year for film thus far.
The late actor talks to Bobbie Wygant about his 1979 Western comedy directed by Robert Aldrich.
The directors talk at the world premiere of Robert Rodriguez's film in Austin on January 15, 1996.
Kermode talks at length about Christopher Nolan's latest film.
The legendary director on Robert Altman, Steven Spielberg, Rob Zombie, Eli Roth, David Cronenberg, and more.
The actress on how she really feels about her character in the 2008 Hollywood hipster classic (500) Days of Summer.
The actress talks about her memoir and working with Dunaway on 1981's Mommie Dearest.
The actress talks Scary Movie 2 and being new to show business.
The director on his new film Disclosure Day and the importance of theatrical exhibition.
The Scary Movie star and co-writer talks about how the Wayans' were "molested in them deals" with Miramax and the Weinstein brothers.