C.H.U.D.

Can an old-fashioned monster movie still work in the 1980s? The dedicated cast for this overachieving chiller takes its story of 'Cannibalistic…

The Boston Strangler

True-Crime Terror! Richard Fleischer and Edward Anhalt's riveting serial killer makes extensive use of split- and multi-screen imagery. One of the most…

One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger officially become 'The Archers' for this sterling morale-propaganda picture lauding the help of the valiant Dutch resistance.…

Cinerama’s Russian Adventure

The USSR's Cinerama knockoff proved a 'good business' between the rival superpowers, when some producers imported and re-edited six Soviet Kinopanorama travelogues…

Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams

If anybody's dreams are interesting, Akira Kurosawa's should be, and this late career fantasy is a consistently rewarding string of morality tales…

A SEASON FOR THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving. After the past year of tumult, anger and divisiveness we’ve experienced in this country and around the world, to say nothing…

J’accuse (1938)

A World War, a solemn vow, and a promise betrayed lead to a 'night of the living war dead' — all cooked…

The Magic Box: The Films of Shirley Clarke V. 4

Milestone wraps up its 'Project Shirley,' an in-depth study of the independent director of The Connection and Portrait of Jason. Practically all…

Rabid

David Cronenberg puts Canada on the horror map with yet another early career ick-fest, about a vampiric woman armed with a new…

Hell or High Water

Sheltered in my Los Angeles bubble, I can't believe that this crime movie had an accurate measure of the true pulse of…

Runaway Train

Cannon Films knocks one out of the park: Jon Voight and Eric Roberts escape from prison only to end up on a…

Boomerang!

Elia Kazan's third picture is a hard-hitting noir, a true story that honors the efforts of a noble States' Attorney when confronted with a murder…

One-Eyed Jacks

Marlon Brando put his all into this impassioned, expertly acted and crafted VistaVision western spectacle. Has it been overlooked because of the…

Time After Time

The Killing of America

It’s Always Fair Weather

When MGM was almost a ghost town, the Arthur Freed unit hit one last ‘special’ factory musical out of the park with…

Lone Wolf and Cub

Daisy Kenyon

What? A movie where adults behave like adults? Otto Preminger showcases a quiet maturity in this story of an independent woman caught…

HAL PHILIP WALKER, ALBUQUERQUE, NASHVILLE AND ELECTION 2016

From the first time I saw it until this moment, two days before what might just be the most important, potentially resonant…

Private Property

Is this once-lost film the apex of obscure independent Hollywood filmmaking?  Made way outside the limits of the Production Code, it's even…

The T.A.M.I. Show + The Big T.N.T. Show

For nostalgic excitement there's no better '60s pop compendium than this! An impossibly eclectic mix of talent at the Santa Monica Civic,…

Strike Me Pink

Neurotic coward Eddie Cantor decides to defend an amusement park against gangsters, and nothing but fun ensues! Ethel Merman has a small…

The Sea of Trees

Where's M. Night Shyamalan when we need him? Gus Van Sant's spiritual journey through a death forest is pretty to look at,…

Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland and Agnes Moorehead play it nasty, chop-chopping their way through a Grand Dame Guignol epic of 'sixties…

Western Union

Wow! Fritz Lang's second western is a marvel -- a combo of matinee innocence and that old Germanic edict that character equals…