The story goes that the stretch of snowy landscape at the end of the original cut of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner was actually B-roll from Stanley Kubrick's The Shini
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Gerald's Game premieres on Netflix on Sept. 29. One of the most hilarious things I've ever seen on television comes early in The Langoliers, a 1995 ABC miniseries ad
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Still trudging through the blasted desertscape of the mind 33 years after Paris, Texas, Harry Dean Stanton hoofs along beneath the opening titles of Lucky, his richl
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Bobbi Jene, a new Scandinavian documentary, explores a couple of years in the life of an Iowa-born modern dancer who builds a career in Israel before confronting the
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Sean Baker's The Florida Project, the follow-up to the breakout indie comic drama Tangerine, sparkles with joy and hope even as it tells a not-so-hopeful story. In t
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Filmmaking is not a poor man's game. Even as digital cameras get cheaper, making a film worthy of release still requires dough to get off the ground, which means the
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It's October, which means it's time to retire from outdoor life and fully settle into the fall premiere schedule. And because it's 2017, that means there are about a
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Hugh Hefner, who died yesterday at 91, was a lot of things ? an entrepreneur, a publishing magnate, husband, father, mansion dweller and owner of Holmby Hills' m
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iIf there's one thing the Japanese genre filmmakers whose work turns up at U.S. festivals tend to nail, it's masterfully creating a sense of inescapable existentiali
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Out of the 82 feature films at Fantastic Fest this year, 11 were directed by women, and four of those were co-directed by a man. For the slow in math, that means wom
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If I could sum up my experience this week at the Austin, Texasbased genre film festival Fantastic Fest in a word, it would be exhausting. In years past, that comple
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Just a little more than three months ago, Tom Cruise starred in a lifeless wannabe-blockbuster called The Mummy, which made little use of his innate charisma (shut u
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