25 years ago 'Zero Effect' arrived, starring Bill Pullman and Ben Stiller as a quasi-Holmes and Watson, to very little fanfare, but ended up being a real delight and a super-unique way to tell a detective story.
JoinedSeptember 6, 2017
Articles361
While not nearly the cultural phenomenon that 'Pulp Fiction' was, Tarantino's 'Jackie Brown' was an extremely enjoyable film with first-rate dialog, that helped fuel the comeback of a couple '70s stars.
Arriving 15 years ago now, 'Juno' is one of those movies where you're either on its wavelength or you're not. If you are, it's wonderful, cute, and heartwarming. If you're not, it's practically unwatchable.
Spike Lee's 2002 film '25th Hour' is generally considered the best film ever made about the aftermath of 9/11and ranks among Lee's best films.
'A Life Less Ordinary' was Danny Boyle and Ewan McGregor's follow-up to 'Trainspotting,' and while it wasn't nearly the hit that was, it led to a lot of subsequent success for everyone involved.
A lot of the Coens brothers' movies are dark, and a lot of them are violent, but none are as downright bleak as 'No Country for Old Men' - arguably the best film in their steep catalog.
'Starship Troopers', much like Paul Verhoeven's earlier film 'Robocop', had a pretty clear message of anti-fascism that, also like his earlier film, often got lost on viewers.
The DOC NYC film festival is running this month in New York, featuring a huge program of documentaries from around the world. This year's festival is especially strong in films about music; here are three of the most notable ones.
Dylan Kidd's 'Roger Dodger' didn't exactly make a huge splash when it landed in the fall of 2002 but it's a movie with a hell of a hook that's always stayed with me after I saw it.
One of the quintessential movies of the New Hollywood of the 1970s turns 50 years old this year. 'The King of Marvin Gardens,' directed by Bob Rafelson, was weird, experimental, and featured Jack Nicholson on top of his game.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of some great movies from 1972, and while 'Night of the Lepus' (a horror pseudo-Western about giant bunnies attacking) isn't a great film by any stretch, it is a great oddity.
There was once a time, albeit brief, when Steven Seagal was actually both cool and a plausible movie star; with the best of his run being 1992's 'Under Siege.'
'The Year of Living Dangerously' was simultaneously a movie about war, journalism, and Westerners slow to understand a different culture. Featuring an impossibly young Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver, and numerous controversies.
Released 15 years ago, 'Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story' fell a bit short in delivering consistent laughs but it was incredibly great at pointing out the clichés of the music biopic genre.
There are seemingly more documentaries released these days than ever before, and a great deal of them are about music. Here are the 16 best of the year.
The veteran actor Neal McDonough isn't typically part of viral news stories, but that's exactly what happened when an interview began re-circulating about how he was "blacklisted."
When 'Southland Tales' arrived in November of 2007, 15 years ago last month, it was an immediate flop, a strange movie that audiences couldn't make heads or tails of. But they were wrong.
'Three Men and a Baby' was a massive hit when it came out which featured one of the greatest apartment sets in the history of movies and spawned an urban legend about a ghost boy.
Michael Moore has basically been making the same politically charged documentaries for three decades now, and back in '02 he delivered his most prominent work in 'Bowling for Columbine.'
'The Hidden' arrived three years before the arrival of 'Twin Peaks,' but it's a movie that should naturally appeal to fans of that particular show. For one, it's got Kyle MacLachlan, playing an FBI agent with an unorthodox style.
While one could make many cases against 'Argo', it's still a wildly entertaining film that's deserving of its accolades and even more remarkable for what it did for Ben Affleck's career.
We sat down with Chinonye Chukwu last week, ahead of 'Till‘s showing as a centerpiece screening at this year’s Philadelphia Film Festival to talk about her path to this point and this important story finally being told on the big screens.
George Clooney has been a movie star for 25 years now, but the best movie he's ever been a part of — 'Michael Clayton' — is one from 2007 that was a flop at the time of its release.
If some piece of media is an any way Twin Peaks-adjacent, I'm going to check it out. That's true of movies, live performance installations, burlesque shows, you name it. Even operas. That's where 'Black Lodge' came in.
