Heavenly Creatures is Peter Jackson’s most ambitious film, stylistically speaking, poised between the gonzo experiments of his earlier splatter features and the more [...]

With Safe and Far From Heaven, Todd Haynes took the mid-century melodrama and mediated it through a postmodern sensibility. However, whereas Far From Heaven was still set in [...]

Along with The Duellists and Gladiator, The Last Duel forms a kind of rough trilogy in Ridley Scott’s body of work – three films, all about combat, released about thirty [...]

A quarter of a century before Stanley Tucci made the food docuseries Searching for Italy, he explored the connection between Italians, Americans and their cuisine in Big [...]

Dolores Claiborne is one of the more unusual Stephen King adaptations of the 90s, partly because the novel was a little anomalous in King’s body of work at this time. [...]

There’s nothing quite like a mid-budget, mid-90s thriller, especially when it’s based on a potboiler novel – and Primal Fear is one of the best. Adapted from William [...]

I have a vivid tactile memory of the first time I watched Carlito’s Way – in 2002, at a friend’s house, on a dated 80s black leather couch, relegated to a family room [...]