Art Blakey: The Jazz Messenger
Two years before his death, this 1988 documentary spotlights one of the world’s greatest drummers and bandleaders. Dick Fontaine and Pat Hartley’s fly-on-the-wall style avoids the usual retrospective approach by […]
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I Saw the Devil
I sometimes wonder what Secret Cinema would be like in South Korea. Do they put you in a box for 15 years then feed you a live octopus and chase […]
The Lighthouse
Two men (Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe) go insane on a tiny island in The Lighthouse, or Brexit: The Movie. Essentially The Shining in a lighthouse (The Brining?), this loose […]
The Innocents
A governess (Deborah Kerr) confronts voices, apparitions, noises and superstitions in 1961’s The Innocents – a much better name for a The Turn of the Screw adaptation than The Turning, […]
Dolemite
After Netflix made a high-quality feature about Rudy Ray Moore, Amazon cheaply snapped up his movies in an act of opportunism worthy of the man himself. The original Dolemite movie […]
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Q: Who would be crazy enough to make a sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey? A: The man who made Timecop. Peter Hyams (End of Days) brings back all our […]
The Goop Lab with Gwyneth Paltrow
Some celebrities use their platform to champion a cause. Jane Fonda was arrested last week for protesting climate change. Blake Lively has devoted 8 years of her life to making […]
The Turning
The world needs another movie about a woman going to a haunted house and nothing happening like it needs another hole in its ozone layer, but here’s one more from […]
Weathering With You
A teenage boy (Kotaro Daigo) runs away to Tokyo and meets a girl who can control the weather (Nana Mori), but soon finds that Cloudbusting is best left to Kate […]
Opera
Dario Argento continues his streak of making the world’s best-looking and least-comprehensible horror movies with 1987’s Opera. Based on his experiences directing a failed version of Verdi’s Macbeth, Argento’s giallo proved […]
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