Visionary (there’s really no other word for it) filmmaker Guillermo del Toro mashes up horror, sci-fi, fantasy, romance and historical drama for his [...]

Austrian bombshell Hedy Lamarr—billed by Hollywood studio head Louis B. Mayer as “the world’s most beautiful woman”—isn’t remembered so much these days for [...]

If you’ve never seen The Room, the infamous 2003 cult film from alleged writer-director-actor Tommy Wiseau, it’s pretty hard to describe. It’s also [...]

Noted Irish playwright Martin McDonagh—who picked up a movie camera to write and direct the finely tuned, perfectly toned 2008 crime dramedy In [...]

For the past several years, actress/writer Greta Gerwig has served as an indie film muse to herself and others (see for example: Joe [...]

Stage magic, despite occasional, fleeting moments of coolness (“The Magician” starring Bill Bixby, David Copperfield getting engaged to Claudia Schiffer, David Blaine before [...]

The personal is absolutely political, and idealistic revelations do make for terrific revolutionary metaphor. But something called “peer pressure” is often the most [...]

Over the course of just three films, Greek weirdo Yorgos Lanthimos has established himself as today’s premiere purveyor of absurdist cinema. In 2009’s [...]

Alongside such familiar touchstones as “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” Nilla Wafers and Candyland, A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh books remain an unsullied memory of childhood for [...]

With wildfires streaking though Northern California, turning parts of Napa wine country to ash, it seems an uncomfortably timely moment to go see [...]