Tom Cruise never does anything halfway. After spending the past 15 or so years focused almost exclusively on big-budget action franchises (or would-be franchises), Cruise makes his return to what

The first episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1991 features the box-office champion, James Cameron’s Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Direct...

'Party Down' is a sharp, funny comedy about cater waiters

Michel Gondry's 'The Science of Sleep' is more than an Eternal Sunshine runner-up.

A military veteran is stranded in the wilderness alongside his dog, but the story of their journey barely tugs at the heartstrings.

For Haru (Rinko Kikuchi), dancing with her husband Luis (Alejandro Edda) is something magical. Director Josef Kubota Wladyka expresses that magic literally when Haru and Luis take the floor during

This bonus episode for our season on the awesome movie year of 1985 features Savage Steve Holland’s Better Off Dead. Written and directed by Savage St...

Our mini-reviews of “The Depths,” “Twiggy,” “Battle Cabin,” and more new under-the-radar on-demand offerings.

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In this epilogue to our season on the awesome movie year of 1946, we talk about alternate movies we considered including in all of our different categor...

Chris Roberti's 'Same Boat' is a time-traveling love story that makes the most of its modest budget to craft a timeless meet cute.

Sheep are having quite a year at the movies. Just a few months after the delightful The Sheep Detectives comes the equally delightful Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy

Released 20 years ago this week, Brian De Palma’s neo-noir is overdue for the critical reassessment given to his other misunderstood masterpieces.

The finale of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features our audience choice poll winner, Howard Hawks’ The Big Sleep. Directed by Howard H...

This is what you might call “Dadslop.”

For its first hour or so, Hope is essentially one long chase scene, with some of the best, most riveting action you’re likely to see in a theater this year.

Think the Rambo movies are just about over-the-top violence? The sensitive and intelligent 'First Blood' will prove you wrong

The thirteenth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features our cult classic pick, horror movie The Beast With Five Fingers. Directe...

This week’s minor VOD releases feature a family of militia members, a star-crossed lesbian couple, a multi-generational spy dynasty, and a cult dedicated to

He’s not related to Akira Kurosawa, but Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa nevertheless works in the shadow of the late cinematic legend in his new film, The Samurai and the Prisoner.

A hiatus of nearly a decade from making proper feature films has done nothing to change the endearingly low-key priorities of writer/director Joe Swanberg’s storytelling. Swanberg slips comfortably ba...

The twelfth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features our producer David Rosen’s pick, musical comedy Swing Parade of 1946. Dir...

Joel Edgerton is a sad dad traveling across dimensions in the Apple TV sci-fi show's sprawling second season

Not to be confused with “It Ends With Us.” Different movie entirely.

The parallels are almost too perfect: A movie about a huge corporate conglomerate engaging in deceptive practices in order to bring in greater profits is pulled from its scheduled release

The eleventh episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1946 features the Academy Awards Best Picture winner, William Wyler’s The Best Years o...

Lionel Barrymore plays a delightfully arrogant murderer in this cruelly efficient piece of pre-Code nastiness from nearly a century ago.

Statham stows away on a cargo ship to take down human traffickers in this dull, forgettable action movie