A double feature of the two films makes it obvious that Damien Chazelle was watching them on repeat while constructing his runaway, almost-Oscar-sweeping-hit, La La Land, which borrows liberally from both films in terms of plot, style and production design.

M. Night Shyamalan’s career rehabilitation has been a long time coming.

Regardless of its quality, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story was in some ways destined to be the most interesting Star Wars film since A New Hope, if only for what it represented.

Released in January of 1944, when the outcome of World War II was still far from certain, Alfred Hitchcock’s Lifeboat was a bold and divisive film.

In addition to the band’s first new recorded music in over a decade, 2016 also saw The Rolling Stones release Havana Moon, a 2 CD/DVD set documenting the band’s first live performance in Cuba.

There is a scene early in Michelangelo Antonioni’s first English language film, Blow-Up, that captures the value of revisiting films – or art in general.

Volume XXXVIII is another strong collection, with three really good episodes and only one so-so one.

John Waters is so often heralded as the King of Filth, the Pope of Trash, and any number of tasteful/tasteless honorifics, but rarely is Mr. Waters ever recognized as the Poet of Trash, the Laureate of the Tasteless, the Lyricist of Litter, the Bard of Bad Taste.

Based on a 1956 novel of the same name, Compulsion is a fictionalized version of the 1924 case of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, two wealthy Chicago teenagers who murdered a fourteen-year-old boy in order to commit “the perfect crime” and to prove their inherent intellectual superiority.