James Gray’s latest film is his first foray into science fiction, starring Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones as Roy and Clifford McBride, a father-and-son astronaut duo. We [...]

Towards the end of the 70s, Altman’s classic period to reach the end of its lifespan, and his ensemble vision grew zanier and wackier in response. While things were [...]

It might be easy to dismiss or lampoon from a distance, but Downton Abbey is a terrific big-screen adaptation of a classic television franchise. The premise is disarmingly [...]

Thieves Like Us is an adaptation of the Edward Anderson novel of the same name, which deals with a gangster and his wife as they try to make a life for themselves in [...]

Although Stephen King’s It has passed into popular culture as a novel about children fighting a monster, it actually follows two discrete stories. In the first story, set [...]

Popeye marks the end of Robert Altman’s golden age – the last of his great ensemble experiments before he settled into his 80s output, which was more driven by chamber [...]

Originally titled Dirty Women, The Hustle is a remake of 1988’s Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, which was itself already a remake of 1964’s Bedtime Story. However, The Hustle is [...]

Quintet is possibly the most critically reviled film of Robert Altman’s entire career, but it’s as much an apotheosis of his 70s style as Nashville, 3 Women or Popeye. It [...]

Ted Bundy’s hold on the popular imagination stems in large part from his relationship with Ann Rule, and her discussion  of his trial and conviction in The Stranger Beside [...]

Robert Altman followed Nashville and Buffalo Bill and the Indians with 3 Women, one of the most beautiful and enigmatic films in his entire body of work. Taken collectively, [...]