Targets (movie 1968) review: Boris Karloff is fantastic in this disturbing Peter Bogdanovich thriller that shows life and art as irrevocably intertwined. Tim O’Kelly costars.
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Sex and the City box office: This major hit is particularly notable as one of the rare woman-centered movies to become a worldwide success.
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Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon. Gus Van Sant’s 1997 Best Picture nominee Good Will Hunting will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’…
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The Penalty (movie 1920) review: Man of a Thousand Faces Lon Chaney delivers another phenomenally creepy portrayal in Wallace Worsley’s top-notch revenge thriller.
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Hollywood Horror House / Savage Intruder (movie 1970) review: B thriller proves that Miriam Hopkins’ star charisma remained undiminished after more than four decades in the business.
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Lady in a Cage (movie 1964) review: Olivia de Havilland delivers a tour de force in Walter Grauman’s horror cult classic with a side of scathing social commentary. James Caan costars.
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Picture Mommy Dead (movie 1966) review: Featuring Don Ameche, Zsa Zsa Gabor and other notables, Bert I Gordon’s psychobabbling thriller was made with schlocker fanatics in mind.
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The Cervantes Center of Arts & Letters will celebrate the birth centennial of Mexican actor-singer superstar Tito Guízar (1908–1999) with a screening of the 1936 cowboy musical (“charro”) Alla en…
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Lifeboat cast (top) and Shadow of a Doubt cast (bottom): Alfred Hitchcock mid-1940s classics. Even though I’ve never been a major Alfred Hitchcock fan, I do find the vast majority of…
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Matte Painting artwork + Robert Mitchum Interviews with Roger Ebert in which The Night of the Hunter actor disses Steve McQueen and Robert Wise.
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British cinema is back in full force at this year’s Venice Film Festival According to press reports, among the favorites to win the several Venice 2007 Lions tomorrow are: Best…
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The Bourne Ultimatum box office: Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass’ thriller is the most successful Bourne movie of all.
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Bugsy movie with Annette Bening and Warren Beatty. Barry Levinson’s 1991 best picture nominee Bugsy is the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ “Great To…
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Film noir New York: Sweet Smell of Success with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. Whenever I think of film noir, I – somewhat incongruously – immediately picture murder and mayhem…
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Slow Burn (movie 2007) review: Starring Ray Liotta, Wayne Beach’s confusing and utterly forgettable thriller is a poor copy of Bryan Singer’s classic The Usual Suspects.
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The Number 23 (movie 2007) review: Comedian Jim Carrey is badly (mis)cast against type in Joel Schumacher’s absurd metaphysical thriller. Virginia Madsen costars.
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Blow-Up (movie 1966) review: In his ‘Swinging London’ masterwork, Michelangelo Antonioni questions the perception of reality. David Hemmings and Vanessa Redgrave star.
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Inside Man offers a long day’s journey into nought: I’ve seen little of Spike Lee’s oeuvre. As far as I’m concerned, the overblown portrayal of ethnic relations in Do the…
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Géla Babluani’s thriller 13 Tzameti, winner of the World Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, offers a relentlessly bleak – and downright exploitive – look at…
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Fabián Bielinsky dead at 47: Second (and last) feature film, ‘The Aura,’ was screened a few days ago at the Los Angeles Film Festival Argentinean filmmaker Fabián Bielinsky has died…
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Paris, France, middle of the night. An old man is walking alone in a darkened gallery in the Louvre. He approaches a painting. Another man – the evil twin of…
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The crime drama Walk Softly Stranger was RKO’s biggest flop of the year. It became a blotch on Joseph Cotten’s resumé, shortened Robert Stevenson’s directorial career at the studio, and…
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Author Henry Farrell, whose Grand Guignol tales What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and What Ever Happened to Cousin Charlotte? were successfully adapted for the screen in the 1960s, died…
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Match Point with Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. If Alfred Hitchcock were to direct a screenplay written by Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Stanislaw Lem, and based on Theodore Dreiser’s An…
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Munich movie (2005): Steven Spielberg’s uneven but complex political thriller is his most satisfying in decades. Eric Bana, Geoffrey Rush + Daniel Craig star.
Strait-Jacket (movie 1964) review: Gimmick master William Castle’s B horror cult classic works as a larger-than-life Joan Crawford showcase. Diane Baker and Leif Erickson costar.
Berserk (movie 1967) review: Joan Crawford shows that she could still command the action, seduce hunks half her age and look fabulous while parading around in fishnet leggings.
The Brave One box office: Directed by Neil Jordan and starring two-time Oscar winner Jodie Foster, the unenthusiastically received revenge thriller has had a wobbly start.
The Godfather: Part III with Diane Keaton, George Hamilton, and Al Pacino. Francis Ford Coppola’s 1990 best picture nominee The Godfather, Part III will be the next feature presentation in the…
The Departed with Leonardo DiCaprio. Best Picture Academy Award winner The Departed boasts a respectable pedigree: the cop thriller was directed by Martin Scorsese; edited by Thelma Schoonmaker; shot by…
In Anthony Mann’s action-packed B film noir Desperate, the lights don’t have to go out for danger to strike. When a clean-cut delivery man (Steve Brodie) gets accidentally involved in…
Theda Bara in ‘Cleopatra’: ‘The Woman with the Hungry Eyes’ screening at MoMA Theda Bara: ‘Cleopatra’ Star Featured in Documentary The Woman with the Hungry Eyes, about the life and…