This high-concept reworking of an old-fashioned creature feature is a 21st century Godzilla movie with a DIY aesthetic. Matt Reeves directs and J.J. Abrams produces.
The original ‘The Matrix’ has become such a touchstone of American pop culture—referenced, copied, parodied, and parroted)—that it’s hard to remember just how new and different and distinctive it was when it debuted in 1999.
The Austrian bodybuilder took his first major role playing Robert E. Howard’s primitive mercenary hero in the adventure fantasy from director John Milius and screenwriter Oliver Stone.
Jonathan Demme directs Jeff Daniels and Melanie Griffith in this cult classic comedy of a repressed businessman and an impish free spirit on wild road trip that takes a turn into darkness.
George Franju’s perverse and poetic French classic is at once lyrical, haunting, and deviant, an elegantly horrifying classic of sadism and shadowy grace.
John Woo, the action maestro of Hong Kong cinema, is working at the top of his game in this double-barreled revenge thriller built around an absurd premise, outsized emotions, and one show-stopping action set-piece after another.
William Wellman directs this snappy pre-code drama set in a sleazy backwater where the dregs of civilization hide out and the local law is even more corrupt than the crooks.
Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh star in Orson Welles’ baroque border town murder mystery, a sleazy, grimy, jittery, and ultimately dazzling work of cinematic magic.
Douglas Sirk puts the opera back into “soap opera” in this exquisitely baroque melodrama with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone.
