Blake Edwards’ 1968 slapstick masterpiece The Party has one problem and it is HUGE and involves brown face.
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You know what movie is unbelievably great? The original King Kong.
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For the spooky season we take a fond gander at the nifty slasher satire Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon.
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Many dark melodramas have been made about Hollywood’s ugly side but few are as bleak or as riveting as John Schlesinger’s 1975 adaptation of Nathaniel West’s The Day of the Locust.
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Joe Dante and Allan Arkush’s 1976 show business satire Hollywood Boulevard is lurid, sensational and utterly irresistible.
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I finally got around to watching the Cannes Cut of Southland Tales, which I was at one point supposed to write the liner notes for, and holy shit is it great.
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For Your Consideration is just like writer-director-star Christopher Guest’s exploration of the out of control egos of the ridiculous and oblivious except that it’s just not funny.
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Rodney Ascher’s cult 2010 documentary The Shining uses fan theories about The Shining to explore the irresistible nature of conspiracy theories and the strong pull of what might be true.
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Tom DiCillo’s semi-autobiographical comedy-drama Living in Oblivion remains one of the most incisive movies about the filmmaking process ever made.
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There are lots of movies about movies (I’m writing a whole book about them!) but none quite like Jordan Peele’s audacious new fright flick with a big old brain and a lot on its mind, Nope.
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