As a Hollywood screenwriter burdened with a hair trigger temper and seemingly psychopathic predilection to violence, Humphrey Bogart deli...

Mickey Rooney is an electrifying dynamo in this foot-tapping, often astonishing musical which helps cement for me why the pre-war period ...

The exotic lands of South America provide the location for one of the big adventure films of Hollywood’s most famous year (1939). Cary Gr...

A sublime time capsule of the era, Over the Edge, exists as a rarely-seen cult classic, plugging nihilistic punk-like anger into the conv...

What a strange and wonderful picture, a thrilling remake of Clouzot’s Wages of Fear, made with the documentary-like realism which embodie...

Walter Hill’s Cajun siege picture, for a long time barely registering on the cultural radar, for cinephiles now sits nicely in the highly...

Sweetie, the title character of  Jane Campion’s idiosyncratic and  typically Aussie -quirky  first feature, is the house guest from hell,...

It’s impossible not to watch a Michael Mann film these days without the context of his previous work in mind. Because virtually each and...

The second of Chaplin’s feature films (after 1921’s 'The Kid') loses nothing over time, easily gliding past all technical innov...

Overwhelmingly beautiful but cold, Tony Scott’s The Hunger, once dismissed back in the day, now resounds as a seminal film of the vampire...

This underseen Elmore Leonard-penned project about a prominent LA industrialist blackmailed for his infidelity cruises through the se...

Perhaps more admirable and commendable than moving or masterful, the large scale frontier adventure tale visualized with eye-popping wide...

You don't have to be an Elvis fan to be thrilled by this treasure of a documentary depicting the elder Elvis, in the twilight of his c...

IT FOLLOWS (dir. David Robert Mitchell) David Robert Mitchell’s exercise in horror minimalism masterfully pulls off the best retro movi...