Remembering the endlessly quotable film that started it all; perhaps never cool, but at least it sincerely tried.
Tobey Maguire portrays a thunderstruck Peter Parker Spider-Man 2; he staggers through the film perpetually on the edge of tears, a hero in crisis, never more...
When conceiving of The Filmstruck Cram, a priority was certainly to highlight the site’s role in making available the filmographies of iconic directors: Kurosawa, Hitchcock, the...
Guy Maddin’s My Winnipeg is exactly the style of film I wouldn’t reach for if not for the ease of the Filmstruck streaming service. Easier to...
In a coincidence that highlights the vitality of a service like Filmstruck, a print of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low actually screened in my city earlier...
Many years before the Coen Brother’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, before No Country for Old Men, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, A Serious Man, and the rest...
Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter was a critical bomb that alienated audiences when it was released in 1955, mostly because no one knew exactly...
Dial M for Murder, which Alfred Hitchcock adapted with precision from a hit play by writer Frederick Knott, was not a film the director particularly liked....
Unlike other films from The Filmstruck Cram series, such as Shogun Assassin or The Long Good Friday, Brian De Palma’s Sisters is not (at the moment)...
The Candidate is both prescient in its portrayal of campaign politics and entirely quaint in its level of cynicism, the latter of which is calibrated for...