Chang-Dong Lee’s slow-to-no-burn mystery thriller Burning is like a thousand-piece LEGO set that builds itself slowly, one tiny block at a time. There [...]

Like the neighbors who put up their Christmas decorations before Thanksgiving, Illumination Entertainment (the company behind the Despicable Me films) has rushed its [...]

The job of a writer is normally so boring that filmmakers must go to great lengths to make it interesting on screen (Naked [...]

There are those who would argue Italian director Dario Argento’s 1977 shocker Suspiria is a masterpiece of horror—a disconcerting, nightmarish, hyper-visual classic executed [...]

In a world awash in sequels, prequels, remakes and reboots, the familiar slasher flick Halloween manages to be that most rare of beasts: [...]

For a man with plenty of Irish in his family tree, I’m shamefully short on my understanding of modern Irish history. Some of [...]

Some movies have wide orbits, encompassing grand themes and epic actions. Others have a smaller orbit, revolving around less grandiose worlds. And some [...]

If we’re being completely honest, A Star is Born was a hackneyed “showbiz meller” (as Variety magazine used to call them) when it [...]

Blaze, co-written and directed by independent acting icon and occasional novelist Ethan Hawke, is an umber-hued ramble through the life of alt.country cult [...]

Filmmaker Jeremiah Zagar (In a Dream, Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart) takes his history with short films and documentaries and spins it [...]