'A History of Violence' was a significant motion picture for quite a few reasons.It represented David Cronenberg's resurgence, after a few flops in a row, and it's one of the best films ever adapted from a graphic novel.
There's a lot of humor to be mined from the idea of Hollywood coastal elites descending on a small town to make a movie, and in December of 2000, David Mamet's State and Main executed that formula flawlessly.
While a whole generation is growing up with "Netflix documentary" as a genre, docs are cleaning up at the box office, too. According to The Numbers, documentaries grossed a total of $95 million domestically in 2018, more than doubling last year's total of $44 million. A big factor in that is that there were a lot of really great documentary films this year.
At first glance 'Dead Man Walking' looks like a typical piece of liberal Hollywood message-based filmmaking, but the film is different from others in the genre in quite a few key ways and 25 years after its release, it's every bit as devastating as it was upon arrival.
Casino culture is a fascinating topic that has been explored in various forms of art and inspired some of the best films in history. Here's 4 of the best.
Whatever form the film takes, the idea of Daniel Craig's private eye parachuting into another case, in another part of the country, with another eccentric wealthy family, has virtually unlimited potential for future films.
'Quiet Storm: The Ron Artest Story', a documentary about the former NBA star, will debut on Showtime May 31.
In a world filled with way too much noise, auditory and otherwise, nowadays it says more to not say anything at all. The movie business started with silent films, and in recent years more movies have been getting a silent treatment all their own.
While it would be easy to dismiss the first two Bill & Ted movies as goofy '80s pulp, I would like to take a moment to argue that beneath all the silliness is a well-crafted extolment on the philosophy of Stoicism.
'A Star Is Born' is a fairly predictable story that fumbles the ending but Lady Gaga & Bradley Cooper do a great job of delivering real emotional resonance and the music is fantastic.
It's official, 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is a box office hit and given Hollywood's never-ending copycat tendencies, that means we're about to get many more music biopics. So let's imagine an alternate world in which music rights are no object, nor is the necessary approval or control of surviving band members, and examine some music biopics that haven't happened yet, but should.
It’s very clear, from the artistic and financial success of Black Panther, that Ryan Coogler was the right director for Black Panther, and that Black Panther was the right film for him to make at this stage of his career. However, that’s not always the case when it comes to talented young directors who are brought into high-profile franchise filmmaking.
The film had a fun premise, funny gags, and it was missing a lot of the fat often associated with Sandler comedies; but probably its biggest accomplishment was being able to see modern cultural phenomena coming before its time.
2017 was just what the Academy needed after the past few years' increasing outcry over the Oscars' lack of diversity. They bounced back with a record list of diversity that almost seemed too good to be true. But ultimately I chalk it up to more lucky coincidence than manufactured inclusion, and it's brought us one step closer to our films truly becoming art imitating life and the world around us.
In 1996's savage satire 'Citizen Ruth', Alexander Payne and lead star, Laura Dern, did the near impossible: make a successful movie about abortion, and make it a comedy to boot.
28 Years Later, the long-awaited sequel to the cult classic 28 Days Later, has finally been greenlit with the possibility of Cillian Murphy returning as Jim.
Character development is an important part of any film or TV series and when it's done right, it can elevate any project to "all-time" status. Here's 6 of the best.
In the era of subscription services, we are given unlimited access to a massive library of content, yet we still find ourselves defaulting back to the same ones over and over again. Well, there's actually a science behind this behavior.
'Echo In The Canyon', a feature documentary on the Laurel Canyon music scene of the late '60s is set to hit theaters on May 24. Featuring conversations with the likes of Brian Wilson, Tom Petty, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, and more.
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.
A pseudo-sequel to ‘The Social Network’? New movie to follow Winklevoss brothers’ Bitcoin adventures
Most people were introduced to the Winklevoss twins ten years ago in David Fincher's movie 'The Social Network'; now, they may be getting their own movie.
George Clooney just released his new film, 'The Tender Bar', on Amazon Prime and we got a chance to talk with Ivan Leung about his experience on the film, his career in acting, working with iconic actors like Ben Affleck and Christopher Lloyd, and more.
There won't be any of that 'Straight Outta Compton'/'Bohemian Rhapsody' stuff where the surviving band members who are involved with producing the movie use it to settle scores with their disassociated and/or deceased collaborators.
There had been speculation that AMC might end up in bankruptcy; instead, it was Alamo Drafthouse, the beloved, Austin-based cinema.