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 [...]

Spike Lee’s career has been driven by the tension between black masculinity and black patriarchy – between black male pride and patriarchal pitfalls that it can produce. [...]

One of the biggest differences between Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola is that Coppola could never bear to make a mere genre film after Apocalypse Now – everything [...]

I can’t think of a film that spoke as directly to my sense of queer embodiment as My Own Private Idaho when I first watched it on VHS in the late 1990s. Gus Van Sant would [...]

For about a decade, Apocalypse Now seemed to be the last word on the Vietnam War. Francis Ford Coppola’s masterwork was so all-encompassing that it nearly killed him, [...]