50 Trashy Movies Everyone Needs to See Before They Die
A few weeks back, we had a very good time sifting through the whole of literature and plucking out the very best of the very trashiest books. The response was, to say the least, impassioned, so it...
View ArticleThe 10 Unsexiest Movies About Sex
Lovelace, the disappointingly thin Linda Lovelace biopic from usually reliable directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, is out on DVD and Blu-ray this week, where it will presumably find its...
View ArticleVegas on Mars: Recalling ‘Total Recall’ 25 Years Later
Philip K. Dick has enjoyed a surprisingly active and commercial afterlife considering the decidedly non-commercial nature of his output and the fact that, from a sales perspective, he was never more...
View ArticleSo Bad It’s Good: The Bumping, Grinding, Pole-Licking Pleasures of ‘Showgirls’
Bad movies are not a simple matter. There are nearly as many categories of terrible movies as there are for great ones: insultingly stupid (Batman & Robin), unintentionally funny (Birdemic),...
View ArticleGuessing Game: ‘Showgirls’ or Donald Trump Quotes?
Happy 20th anniversary to Paul Verhoeven’s camp classic Showgirls. The stripper saga about a wannabe Vegas dancer who bumps and grinds her way to becoming showgirl queen is known for its...
View ArticleNew York Film Festival Main Slate Includes the Latest from Almodóvar,...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the 25-title Main Slate for its 54th New York Film Festival, a line-up that will offer East Coast film fans the opportunity to go to Cannes without the...
View ArticleThe Best and Worst Films of the 2016 New York Film Festival
The 54th annual New York Film Festival wrapped up last night, bringing an end to a two-plus week downpour of terrific fiction and nonfiction films from here and abroad. Back on September 30, at the...
View ArticleFlavorwire’s Guide to Indie Movies You Need to See in November
The year is winding down, which means the competition for your movie-going dollar is getting fiercer – at least if you’re in the market for smart pictures for grown-ups. With ostensibly small movies...
View ArticleThis Week at the Movies: ‘Arrival,’‘Billy Lynn,’‘Elle’
I went to a movie on Wednesday night, and the funniest thing happened: for at least an hour in the middle, I forgot. Forgot about It. The election. Its outcome. Our white supremacist, sexual predator...
View ArticleThe 10 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Fences,’ ‘Elle,’ ‘The Love...
Well, it finally happened – I broke the column. When we started the weekly home viewing guide back in 2015, the idea was to spotlight the five best movies on disc, demand, and streaming services, a...
View ArticleNYC’s Quad Cinema Surveys the Erotic Thriller with Release of François Ozon’s...
Double Lover, François Ozon’s sexy, twisted new thriller based on a 1987 Joyce Carol Oates short story, opens on Valentine’s Day at Quad Cinema. The Cannes Palme d’Or competitor was called the...
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