Robert Duvall, one of the greatest actors in Hollywood history, has passed away at 95. Excelling at any genre from tense dramas to witty comedies, Duvall’s six-decade career boasted nearly countless roles across film and television. He firmly inhabited any role he encountered, allowing him to
Park Chan-wook's masterful No Other Choice isn't just one of the year's best films: it's one of the best of our era. Simultaneously funny and heartbreaking and punctuated with desperate violence, it's a stunning indictment of contemporary capitalism as much as it is a complex showcase of the depths
Love triangles are one of the trickiest situations in the history of world mythology and literature. The Iliad's Helen, Paris, and Menelaus. Queen Guenivere, King Arthur, and Lancelot. Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), and Victor Lazlo (Paul Henreid) in Casablanca. Godzilla,
At their best, 1970s crime thrillers (think Dog Day Afternoon, Taxi Driver, The French Connection) have a distinct, gorgeous visual atmosphere and built-in intensity that really sells an immersive exploration of criminality. That decade is a half-century away, but Dead Man's Wire, Gus Van Sant's
When Noah Baumbach makes a film, Hollywood listens. This is truer than ever given the wide admiration he received for his recent directorial turn in Marriage Story, and it's certainly true of the script he co-wrote with Greta Gerwig for her own directorial effort in Barbie. His latest film, Jay
On the heels of a fantastic LA retrospective covering the whole of his filmography, and his next film, Frankenstein, on the horizon, it’s the perfect time to celebrate the masterful works of Guillermo del Toro. The auteur filmmaker has carved out a unique, instantly identifiable territory in the
Guillermo del Toro has always been enamored by the story of Frankenstein, describing James Whale's 1931 masterpiece as a formative experience. You can see its fingerprints all over his career. Misunderstood, sympathetic monsters (in Hellboy, the tragic ghosts of Crimson Peak, The Shape of Water).
With a career beginning in the 1960s, Meiko Kaji became a Japanese screen legend. From playing a Yakuza leader in Blind Woman's Curse to playing the tough, betrayed heroine of Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, or embodying vengeance as Yuki in Lady Snowblood and its sequel, Lady Snowblood: Love Song
Bailey Bass as Claudia, Jacob Anderson as Louis De Point Du Lac, and Sam Reid as Lestat De Lioncourt - Interview with the Vampire _ Season 1, Gallery - Photo Credit: AMC AMC+ Interview with the Vampire series comes in hard with its full revamp of title, style, and promotion with season 3: The
We've had haunted house movies. Sure, but have we had a haunted van movie? That's what Passenger amounts to at its most distilled form. This is a horror movie about a demonic force (the opposite of Saint Christopher) that has been chasing and killing travelers for hundreds of years. Basically, the
Though marital arts action cinema is vast and varied, it is rare for one to elevate the genre and push it forward. There have been few recently - The Raid comes to mind, and while not technically "martial arts" I'd argue John Wick counts - that feel as if something new and special is happening.