This week saw the return of major league baseball for the 2021 season. In recent years, I’ve found that I like to indulge in my fandom by not only watching games, but...
Has anybody ever met one of the blonde ice queens who seem to populate every film ever made by a sexually frustrated auteur? They seem to exist as figments of their imagination....
Paul Newman is the titular star of frequent collaborator and Best Director nominee Martin Ritt's (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold) Hud, a bleak contemporary western based on the novel...
The Road to… series probably wouldn’t be massively successful today because all of the entries in the series feel similar to television sitcoms. They’re all fairly short, feature the same cast of...
I approached Short Cuts (1993) with unbridled excitement and high expectations. It did not let me down.
So much of the motifs in the film will be familiar to fans of Robert Altman....
When I saw The Player (1992), I was responding to the hype as much as I was responding to the film itself. Everybody had touted it as the one big budget satire...
Most cinephiles will get a faraway look in their eyes when they reminisce about 1970's cinema and the way that "they don’t make them like they used to." We rant and rave...
Few studios in the world have earned more critical acclaim than Studio Ghibli. Founded by the legendary filmmakers Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki, the Japanese animation studio developed a cult...
