Roger Corman

Peter Bogdanovich, the Oscar-nominated writer and director, has died at the age of 82. The film-maker, whose many credits included The Last Picture S(...)

Something has gone wrong with time. Relatively recent history seems more, well, recent than it did in the relatively recent past.  This week Dis(...)

NEWS OF THE WORLD ★★★★☆ Directed by Paul Greengrass. Starring Tom Hanks, Steve Boyles, Helena Zengel, Tom Astor, John Travis Johnson. Netflix, 118 min(...)

“The ‘Red Death’ had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous,” runs the opening line of Edgar Allan Poe’s spo(...)

Joe Dante’s entry into the film business was so cartoonish it might easily be a scene from a Joe Dante movie. Arriving in California as an aspiring ed(...)

More than a few undistinguished films have (for trivia buffs, anyway) gained a smidgeon of unexpected significance during the Covid era. Two horror fl(...)

All hail the box-office champ of early summer. All hail a film you probably haven’t heard of. Sports enthusiasts are familiar with the asterisks that(...)

Imagine an alternative universe in which children’s television of the early 1990s was taken up with references to ecstasy. The Adventures of Mandy and(...)

There’s so much to the theatrical experience that you can’t get from a watching a film on even the biggest television. The communal buzz. The envelopi(...)

Somewhere out there a scientist is visiting a cruel experiment on blameless baboons. Every time the ape sticks his finger in the hole on the left he g(...)