Immersive, involving, sometimes revelatory, sometimes curiously naive, on occasion thuddingly obvious, Joao Moreira Salles' found-footage study of revolutionaries in
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Friday, April 20Noir City heads into its final weekend of classic crime movies with a humdinger of a Joseph Losey triple feature. The Prowler, which premiered at the
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Cannabis aficionados know from experience that smoking a doobie makes everything better; food, sex, everything. That's especially true of movies where the colors ar
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At the time I made the film The Exorcist, I had never seen an exorcism, notes director William Friedkin at the start of The Devil and Father Amorth, a just-barely f
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Will Robinson. Dr. Smith. The Robot. Anyone who ever watched the 1960s Lost in Space TV series remembers those names and characters. Based loosely on the classic ch
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Fritz Bohm's directorial debut seeks entry into the canon of films about girls awakening to their own devastating powers upon their first menstruation cycle. Wildli
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The painfully dull horror movie Blumhouse's Truth or Dare bears the name of its production company, which in turn is named after producer Jason Blum, who's on a rol
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Shia LaBeouf makes art out of rage, which is somewhat fitting for an actor whose art has inspired irrational hatred. It's baffling that fanboys and internet shouter
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There are ludicrous constructions, say, a 30-foot wolf crossbred with spider, bat and bug DNA. And then there's Rampage's Dwayne The Rock Johnson as a misan
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Los Angeles and film noir go together like a dame and a gat. Perhaps that's why Noir City ? L.A.'s longest-running festival of classic crime cinema ? has en
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Hollywood hasn't known what to do with Jon Hamm since Mad Men, probably because Hollywood doesn't make many movies about grown-ups. That's especially true for grown
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Too few female role models get memorialized in the culture as rock stars. Enter Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, a documentary that resists retelling its subject's
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