A manic blockbuster that veers intermittently from comedy to action to musical, John Landis's The Blues Brothers is rewarding precisely beca...

After following up his critically praised directorial debut Lola with the sombre and exceedingly didactic gambling drama, Bay of Angels, it...

Though associated with the French New Wave by timing, proximity and a moderately vanguard approach to the existentialism and ennui omniprese...

Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly holds the distinction of being both the most faithful adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel for the scre...

The great Hiroshi Teshigahara's second last film, released in 1989, is an insular, ponderous affair, albeit one with flashes of subtle beaut...

Workaholic director Mikio Naruse's obsession with the shifting climate for women in post-war Japan was filtered through the disintegration o...

Keanu Reeves is far from a versatile actor but there are certain roles – Neo in The Matrix and Johnny Utah in Point Break are a couple...

It's surprising when any film, let alone a crowd-pleaser anchored by Hollywood's beloved silver fox, succeeds in being scathing and smart, t...

When it was released in 1991, Disney thought they had a sure-fire franchise starter in The Rocketeer. Being a simple, patriotic period piece...

Following the trajectory of many works by Mikio Naruse, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs deconstructs and analyzes the rapid cultural change...

Upon release, The Matrix was a bit of a shock to the populist system, featuring a cynical metaphysical narrative that flipped the bird to th...