Writer-director William Richert displayed tremendous promise with his first fiction feature, Winter Kills (1979), a ...

          Allegorical, profane, ridiculous, and surreal, The Tin Drum describes the bizarre life of a character who magically ...

          Although he’s best known for making such big-canvas escapist fare as Superman (1978) and Lethal Weapon (1987), Rich...

For all their achievements in other contexts, Tim Conway and Don Knotts delivered consistently disappointing results in the fil...

          Woody Allen’s myriad remarks over the years that Stardust Memories is not an autobiographical movie are at least sli...

          Indie-cinema godhead John Cassavetes initially earned fame as an actor in mainstream films, and he spent most of his ...

          Given his well-known admiration for the work of Ingmar Bergman, filmmaker Woody Allen left himself open for easy crit...

          Given the endless fascination that people have for 1950s beatnik culture and especially for the work of Beat author J...

          Calling a dramatic theater production a “well-made play” carries derogatory implications, not just because the “well-...

          The distaff cohort of the original Not Ready for Prime Time Players fared poorly in terms of translating their succes...

          Bette Midler’s incredible rise to national prominence lost momentum after the release of this concert film, which fai...

          Note: Settle in and enjoy a double-dose of 1980 titles for the next two weeks, beginning with a modern-classic horror...

A fair argument could be made that applying critical standards of any sort to a picture called The Giant Spider Invasion is po...

          Like her mentor Federico Fellini, Italian director Lina Wertmüller generally avoids understatement. Althou...

The product of a weirdly fraught production cycle, with creative differences leading to firings and recriminations, ...

          Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. Exploitive, grotesque, profane, and racist, The Mountain of the Cannibal God is...

There’s a germ of an interesting idea within this no-budget exploitation flick, that being the notion of what might happen if t...

          Graded on one very specific curve, this blaxploitation joint earns a passing grade, but just barely. The curve in que...