David Cronenberg wastes not a second in putting Jeff Goldblum and Geena Davis together onscreen, because that’s the whole movie—their exquisite chemistry fuels what ends up as much a tragic romance as a sci-fi remake. Arguably the pinnacle of Cronenberg’s “body horror” period, and it’s paced like a drag race. more »
Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie (Dave Franco and Alison Brie) find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, the more »
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance. more »
In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff and mayor sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico. more »
Jeff Buckley, a rising star with an otherworldly voice, left the '90s music world reeling when he died suddenly after the release of his debut album. Told through never-before-seen footage and intimate accounts from the three women who knew him best, the film illuminates one of modern music's most influential and enigmatic figur more »
Iris has met her perfect guy, Isaac, and is enjoying their first romantic getaway together -- what could go wrong? This clever and charmingly odd dark comedy takes on the highs and lows of modern dating and the ways it makes us all a little crazy. more »
The story of a family and a family business. more »
Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on - for everyone around her, at least. more »
Superman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice and the human way he soon finds himself in a world that views these as old-fashioned. more »
Today the disappearance of three schoolgirls and their minder would be a lurid true-crime tale or fodder for drawn-out “limited series” dramatic peekaboo. But Peter Weir’s breakout concocts a hypnotic haze of innocence, ardor, repression, suggestion, and emotional weight that utterly beguiles. A perfect cinema enigma. -Lee Gardn more »
In the ‘70s, few things scared moviegoers more than deranged rural people. Wes Craven cemented his budding horror career with this Texas Chainsaw Massacre homage that pits a roadtripping whitebread family (Dee Wallace makes clear why she’s the only one who had a bigger career) against mutant desert cannibals (ditto for Michael B more »
The world's #1 cat video festival is back with screenings in theaters across the USA and around the world starting August 2025! Oscilloscope Laboratories presents CatVideoFest 2025, a compilation of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and class more »
When a titan music mogul (Denzel Washington), widely known as having the "best ears in the business", is targeted with a ransom plot, he is jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma. Brothers Denzel Washington and Spike Lee reunite for the 5th in their long working relationship for a reinterpretation of the great filmmaker Akir more »
Toshiro Mifune invented the modern action hero in Akira Kurosawa’s classic. The former’s grungy ronin wanders into a village and right into the middle of a gang war, only to turn the factions' venality and dim wits to his advantage. Tatsuya Nakadai co-stars as a bonus badass. Fantastic score, too. -Lee Gardner more »
Honey Don't! is a dark comedy about Honey O'Donahue, a small-town private investigator, who delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church. more »
In RELAY, Riz Ahmed plays a world class "fixer" who specializes in brokering lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten their ruin. He keeps his identity a secret through meticulous planning and always follows an exacting set of rules. But when a message arrives one day from a potential clien more »
Tony Scott applied his visual verve and blockbuster sensibilities to one of Quentin Tarantino’s early scripts and delivered an instructive contrast to the latter’s style. Scott is less wink-y and puts real muscle behind the beats of this love-on-the-run/crime-flick/Hollywood-sendup mashup. He also knows how to shoot dialogue wit more »
A bunch of cartoon predators adopt a defenseless human infant instead of eating it. Comedy hijinks with a mid-century hepcat bias and some pretty decent songs ensue. Disney’s adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s India-set stories is charming and surprisingly unproblematic for being nearly 60 years old. -Lee Gardner more »
Robert Altman adapts a clutch of Raymond Carver short stories and, in the process, kinda invents Paul Thomas Anderson. An enormous cast plays a host of Angelenos whose lives intersect in humorous and tragic ways over the course of a few days. Also a very effective nostalgia prompt. Medflies! Cell phones the size of bricks! -Lee more »
Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was a high-school baseball phenom who can't play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He's got a great girl (Zoë Kravitz), tends bar at a New York dive, and his favorite team is making an underdog run at the pennant. When his punk-rock neighbor Russ (Matt Smith) asks him to take care of his c more »
Poor, poor Francine. Divine stars as a smell-sensitive Severna Park hausfrau beset by a porn-peddling husband, delinquent children, and demon booze. Can Tab Hunter’s hunk offer her a new life? John Waters spans the crack between his early outrages and the mainstream appeal of Hairspray with this loving Douglas Sirk pastiche. “Od more »
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing -- as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy's own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden more »
Haunted by the death of their young daughter, Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie thread the streets of Venice and catch glimpses of what might be ghosts. Nicolas Roeg continued his incredible ’70s run (Performance, Walkabout) with a film that’s both a piercing meditation on grief and the greatest giallo ever. -Lee Gardner more »
It probably shouldn’t work at this point, but it totally does. Stanley Kubrick’s audacious sci-fi epic still dazzles with its chutzpah, invention, visual sense, and intelligence. And the scenes aboard the spaceship form one of the great pocket thrillers ever made. -Lee Gardner more »
When Ashley asks for a divorce, the good-natured Carey runs to his friends, Julie and Paul, for support. Their secret to happiness is an open marriage; that is, until Carey crosses the line and throws all of their relationships into chaos. more »
In 1966, Claude Lelouch’s melancholy melodrama borrowed just enough New Wave flavor to cause a middlebrow sensation, and its Francis Lai-penned theme tune has haunted cocktail lounges ever since. In 2025, it’s still a treat to watch Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant brood and sigh amid Lelouch’s clever filmmaking. -Lee Gard more »
DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE, the cinematic return of the global phenomenon, follows the Crawley family and their staff as they enter the 1930s. When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must more »
Scorsese ground zero. The director had already made features, but this deeply personal knockaround slice of NYC street life in the early ‘60 cemented everything about his world-conquering style. Harvey Keitel’s Mob bagman and Robert De Niro’s anarchic ne'er-do-well form the foreground, but everything onscreen is worth your atten more »
Forty-one years after the release of the groundbreaking mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, the now estranged bandmates David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel, and Derek Smalls (Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer) are forced to reunite for one final concert. Spinal Tap II: The End Continues also marks the resurrection of more »
On Christmas Eve, Cliff, a newly sober improv comedian, cracks a tooth and lands in the emergency care of Didi, an older no-nonsense dentist. What begins as a routine check-up sparks an unpredictable evening of misadventures. Together, Cliff and Didi fight to overcome being shut out by their families, face their biggest fears, a more »
Talk about an art film. Soviet director Sergei Parajanov’s account of the life of Armenian poet Sayat-Nova slips narrative convention for a string of lavish, ravishing tableaux vivant, all crammed with inscrutable symbolism and visual piquancy. You could spend a lifetime revisiting it and not get it all. -Lee Gardner more »
Marjane Satrapi’s screen adaptation of her graphic memoir animates its spartan monochrome illustrations to the screen for a tale of a young girl coming of age in revolutionary Iran, as the country pivots from rule by a US puppet to an even more repressive fundamentalist state. A geopolitical history lesson and a piercing account more »
Writer/director Bruce Robinson’s script is one of the best ever put onscreen. Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann’s title unemployed actors booze and quip their way through sozzled adventures en route to personal reckonings with the end of the ‘60s and their aimless youth. Richard Griffiths and Ralph Brown deliver supporting perfor more »
The central car chase and NYC street grit made it famous, but William Friedkin’s breakout film endures for its watchfulness. A pair of rough detectives (Gene Hackman and Roy Scheider) stumble onto what they believe is a major heroin ring. As they shadow the suspects, block after block, mostly on foot, the tension and pressure bu more »
