'Deep Throat' is quite possibly the most famous pornographic movie of all time and is angling for a 50th anniversary cinema return, but that raises a litany of questions that need considering.
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Released in 1997 and directed by Luc Besson, 'The Fifth Element' was really two films (one much better than the other), but whose stunning visuals and fun-filled ride still stand out today.
There have been many reasons thrown around for why Netflix has posted it's first subscriber loss in over a decade, but there's one gaining attention that's been for, well, just about everything: "wokeness."
We got chance to talk to Mark Wahlberg about his new movie 'Father Stu', what drew him to it, financing things himself, eating 11,000 calories a day, and more.
South by Southwest wrapped a couple weeks ago and while it used to be known primarily as a music festival, the film festival program this year featured a long list of music documentaries with two in particular standing out from the rest.
The Slap Heard 'Round the World completely overshadowed an Oscar telecast that was just an all-around abomination, one plagued by every imaginable wrong choice. But no one is talking about any of that.
10 years ago Daniel Gelb delivered one of the truly great documentaries about food with 'Jiro Dreams of Sushi', a compelling portrait of a master at work.
Jordan Peele's debut film, 'Get Out', did something pretty radical, that arrived right on time: It made a movie about American racial prejudice in which the villains were not rednecks, Klansmen, or other traditional racist bad guys.
25 years ago this week 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien' debuted a new bit featuring a dog puppet who trotted out a simple joke construction: Praise of a specific person or thing, followed by "…for me to poop on."
A piece appeared over this past weekend that represents about a half-dozen of the worst trends in pop culture journalism at the moment, with one Rachel Zegler (of 'West Side Story') at the bizarre center of it all.
It's a common occurrence these days for film critics to find themselves at odds with vocal fans of a given movie, but the sparring that's been happening around Adam McKay's star-studded latest film, 'Don't Look Up', has felt notably different.
Christmas Day 2001 saw the release of a full-on Hollywood biopic of the "Greatest of All Time," simply titled 'Ali.' Directed by Michael Mann and starring Will Smith, it didn't stray far from the sports biopic formula but it was executed to near-perfection.
Netflix's much talked about downturn has led to a significant round of cost-cutting for the company, but if there's one silver lining, it's that 'I Think You Should Leave' is still returning for another season.
More than 40 years into his career, the spring of 2022 has become the time to examine the cinematic and cultural legacy of Nicolas Cage - from think pieces to books to a new movie where Cage plays Cage.
The most talked-about filmmaker this Spring is a 76-year-old director who hasn't made a new movie since 2006, and yet, David Lynch is everywhere, at the forefront of both movie news and Film Twitter argument.
Released 20 years ago this week 'Death to Smoochy' arrived as a deeply dark and cynical comedy that appears to have been written by someone whose kids got really into Barney and drove their parents to homicidal fantasy.
Jim Carrey exploded onto the scene of the mid-1990s as one of Hollywood's leading stars going on an impressive run of major hits, with his criminally underrated 'Liar Liar' coming right in the midst of it all.
The Oscars are in crisis and they've tried several changes over the years that have all largely failed. There's no easy fix but, I think the answer has one solution: get the Oscars the hell off of network TV.
We've now had numerous iterations of the Batman, but despite their success, has this iconic property captured the zeitgeist of younger filmgoers as say, Spider-Man?
In a recent press conference we got a chance to chat with Channing Tatum & Reid Carolin about their recently released film, 'Dog', and their love of the furry companions and putting a spotlight on PTSD and veteran suicide.
'We Need to Talk About Cosby', the new 4-part documentary from W. Kamau Bell, just might have created a new template for how to tell the complicated and extremely uncomfortable stories of the most significant #MeToo offenders.
Are film critics living in a bubble? That's been the basis of a lot of discourse in recent weeks and months. But have they really become so far out-of-touch with the general public that it's become a problem?
In the year 1990, there were many very memorable gangster films and numerous equally good modern re-tellings of Shakespearian plays; 'Men of Respect', a weird, silly adaptation of Macbeth, was neither of those.
Will the arguments never end about Mel Brooks' 'Blazing Saddles'? Brooks' 1974 comedy classic might be the most argued-about older movie of all-time, mostly stemming from whether it could be made today or not.
