From the opening titles of Art Linson’s Where the Buffalo Roam (which run over shots of buffalo, naturally), it’s clear that an impressive list of collaborators was assembled for this fictionalized account of the life of Hunter S. Thompson, journalist. It’s not...
If there’s one thing I can say for sure about Slava Tsukerman’s Liquid Sky, it’s that it is memorable. After first watching the 1982 sci-fi punk film in high school, many of the concepts and imagery have stayed with me...
Laurence Olivier’s 1970 production of Anthon Chekhov’s Three Sisters is a faithful adaptation, very long and sometimes quite a bit boring. But it’s also about a bunch of people who are miserable living in the country and long to move...
John Krasinski might be best known as “Jim Halpert” from The Office, but over the years, he has tried to distance himself from the loveable “nice guy” persona that character was famous for. He played an underhanded environmental advocate in...
Plotwise, Lynne Ramsay’s new movie about a man of violence on a mission, You Were Never Really Here, has little in common with her 2002 movie about a woman seizing the day in a liberatingly amoral way, Morvern Callar. Yet the new...
It’s almost an admission of our collective failure to remember what it was like to be children that we find such relevance and currency in stories of kids and their pets. Our own, too little examined maturation makes boys and...
“Uneasy lies that head that wears the crown” – Henry IV, Part 2 Though never once spoken or even vaguely referenced by any of the players in Chappaquiddick, the evergreen warnings of William Shakespeare about the consequences and expectations of...
1971’s Willard, directed by Daniel Mann, was something of a surprise hit. A relatively low-budget creepshow from minor studio Cinerama Releasing with Ernest Borgnine in the antagonist role as the biggest star, it went on to gross almost $15 million...
There’s a shot in the Buster Keaton short “Cops” in which Keaton, standing in the middle of the street, grabs hold of a passing car, the sudden velocity causing his body to go nearly horizontal as he’s speeded out of...
With a name like The Vampire Bat, you’d expect Frank Strayer’s 1933 film (restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and released on Blu-ray by The Film Detective) to be a horror film. And I suppose you wouldn’t entirely be...
