Revisiting Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 2 Tobey Maguire portrays a thunderstruck Peter Parker Spider-Man 2; he staggers through the film perpetually on the edge of tears, a...
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...
A false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man's family to find where he hid the money from a robbery.
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...
Despite it’s well-deserved standing as one of the all-time great British films, The Long Good Friday isn’t easy to purchase on the other side of the...
Luis Buñuel’s Simon of the Desert is the kind “comedy” which provokes more introspection than laughter. It’s a riot of ideas about faith and organized religion,...
“When cut across the neck, a sound like wailing winter winds is heard, they say. I’d always hoped to cut someone like that someday, to hear...
1967’s Branded to Kill can be maddening. The film’s renegade director, Seijun Suzuki — who was fired by Nikkatsu in part because he turned in such an...
'Chungking Express' deserves to be cherished — yet by the film’s own logic, it seems just as likely to disappear while no one is looking.
There are certain elements of Dracula, or as it was titled in America, Horror of Dracula, which probably garner ironic laughter at revival screenings. Perhaps the...
The ostensible premise of Sunny Chan’s Men on the Dragon, the centerpiece film at the 2018 New York Asian Film Festival, is simple: four telecom workers,...
Ogami, one half of the odd-couple detective pairing in The Blood of Wolves, is a familiar figure. He has leathery skin, unkempt hair, and a casual,...
The second season of Atlanta bears the foreboding moniker of Atlanta: Robbin’ Season, and halfway through “Alligator Man”, the reliably insightful Darius neatly reveals why. “Robbin’...
McMafia, BBC’s sprawling organized crime drama that arrives to AMC this week, is bleak. It also manages at times to be dull and formulaic, despite its...
After putting numerous films through an air-tight mathematical formula, we've ranked the best years of the 21st century for the superhero genre. It's science!
