Of stories about immigration and leaving for a better life, on hardship and triumph, these films are the ultimate standout on a family journey to place new seeds in a sometimes unforgiving...

Film noir is a genre that had the aesthetics in the years before the 1940s when a swarm of crime dramas came out that in natural black-and-white, focused on the cynical nature...

In honor of Steve McQueen's upcoming Widows, his first feature since his Best Picture-winning 12 Years A Slave, it is time I'd write something a little more contemporary. It has been 10 years since he debuted...

A fact about me: I have a Masters in Political Science, yet I now regret even going into that cesspool of red tape, democratic authoritarianism, pettiness, greed, power lust, gaslighting, ratfucking, cockblocking,...

I'm not a horror buff. Only a few films make my Top 100 favorite list that qualifies as horror - I think with just one hand I can count them - because...

One of my Top 10 Criterion films, the great German director Fritz Lang, two years before the rise of Hitler and his exile from his home, produced a stunning film that haunts...

Francois Truffaut, trending from art house to mainstream, decided to turn the camera on himself in a composition of troubled actors, hidden loves, and technical misfires. The result is something that is...

Coming soon is the British historical drama Peterloo, the latest from writer/director Mike Leigh. Leigh's work features the aesthetic touch to social situations in contemporary Britain and real-life figures from history. Starting...