“Ball of Fire” (1941) combines the “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” fairy tale with noir with slapstick, and it’s worthy of a smile for
“Step Down to Terror” (1958) is Alfred Hitchcock’s “Shadow of a Doubt” (1943) put into a blender with Fifties sitcoms where father knows best …
Christmas had “Black Christmas” (1974) and Halloween had “Halloween” (1978), so amid cinema’s first slasher boom it was inevitable that Valentine’s Day would get “My
“The Black Hole” (2008) should not be confused with the rather unfortunate Disney film “The Black Hole” (1979). The Disney flick featured irritating robots and
Billy Wilder returns to the winning ingredients of Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, false identities and envelope-pushing sex-based comedy for “Irma la Douce” (1963). Laugh-out-loud funny
“Anora” (2024) takes the “stripper with a heart of gold meets white knight” fairy tale (most famously seen in “Pretty Woman”) and turns it on
“So Long at the Fair” (1950) takes a streamlined, but nonetheless enveloping, approach to a premise so good it’s almost a genre itself – one
Thanks to crowd funding and documentary makers’ better sense of the size of their potential audience, we’re getting in-depth docs on classic entertainment like never
“Den of Thieves” (2018) riffed on “Heat” (1995), and writer-director Christian Gudegast continues to be inspired by classic crime actioners in “Den of Thieves 2:
“RoboCop” (2014) is the definition of a thankless task. Director Jose Padilha and writer Joshua Zetumer do a workmanlike job but aren’t able to make