Tag: crime
Now Streaming: Nicholas Winding Refn, From PUSHER to COPENHAGEN COWBOY
With 'Her Private Hell' set to open this weekend, we look back at the director's distinguished career in genre cinema.
PURE SCUM: Australian Thriller Acquired by Chroma, Releases at Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas in August
After a drug-fueled car crash, two recently graduated private-school boys flee into downtown Melbourne, hoping to outrun the consequences. What begins as a night of excess and indulgence spirals out of control, exposing the dangerous entitlement beneath their privilege as the city closes in.
CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH 4K Review: Anger and Desire in Post-War Japan
In western cinema, the 1950s and 1960s are often portrayed as a time of youth in revolt: the birth of a teenager as a particular cultural and social entity, and with it, the problems of education, social life, work, and...
THE PATRIOT, ERASER, and More Action-Heavy Arrivals to Home Video
New home video releases of action films headlined by Schwarzenegger, Gibson, Berenger, and Beetz!
Fantasia 2026 Review: HER PRIVATE HELL, A Nightmare Neon Opera
At one point in Nicolas Winding Refn’s oblique, morally agnostic, performatively high-camp melodrama, a character pontificates, “You know, this movie is not going to fix us.” They are probably right. The director is far more interested in mise-en-scène still-lives...
HER PRIVATE HELL: Sophie Thatcher And Charles Melton Feature in Official Poster
A hypnotic, unhinged thriller with an original story promising plenty of glamour, sex, and violence.
Fantasia 2026: Raising the Curtain on the 30th Edition of Montreal's Smorgasbord of Genre Cinema
The Fantasia International Film Festival, North America's current largest genre festival runs from July 16 to August 2, in its 30th edition. With its large size, and 'big tent' scope of everything from everywhere as long it is never...
LUCKY Review: Percolating With Criminal Tension
Anya Taylor-Joy, Annette Bening, and Timothy Olyphant star in the Apple TV crime drama series, with Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Drew Starkey, Clifton Collins Jr. and William Fichtner.
New York Asian 2026 Review: COLONY Puts Yeon Song-ho Back In The Undead Driver's Seat
Zombies in a mall, you say? It’s been done before but leave it to Korean genre master Yeon Song-ho to take everything you think you know about the living dead and crank it up to eleven and you’ve got another...
DARK BLUE Review: Bringing Kurt Russell's Dark Side to 4K UHD
Kurt Russell and Scott Speedman embrace police corruption in Ron Shelton's 'Dark Blue'
COLONY Official Trailer: Latest From Korean Zombie Master Yeon Sang-ho Coming This August
Professor Se Jeong attends a biotech conference, only to witness it spiral into catastrophe when a rapidly mutating virus is unleashed. As the outbreak spreads and the infected begin to transform, authorities seal off the entire facility.
THE BIG COMBO 4K UHD Review: Restored 1955 Classic, Where Information Is Essential
Joseph H. Lewis's 1955 noir-classic stars Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, and Jean Wallace. Features in the new 4K edition present loads of commentary from critics and artists.
DESPERATE LIVING 4K Review: Criterion Gets Classy With John Waters Great Underappreciated Masterpiece
From outright disgrace to global cultural treasure, the recent octogenarian iconoclast filmmaker/raconteur John Waters has lived a dozen lives since he first picked up a camera as a teenager in the '60s. By the time Waters made 1977's Desperate Living,...
Now Playing: THE FURIOUS. And Some Other Movies.
Plus: 'Disclosure Day,' 'Kraken,' 'By Hook or By Crook,' 'The Devil Queen.'
THE FURIOUS Interview: Star Joe Taslim
After a career as a judo champion, Joe Taslim turned to movies, with roles in The Raid: Redemption (2011), Fast & Furious 6, Star Trek Beyond, and Mortal Kombat. In The Furious, he plays Navin, a journalist searching for his...
THE FURIOUS Interview: Star Xie Miao
The action star Xie Miao has worked in film for decades, including playing Jet Li's son in My Father Is a Hero (1995). After earning a degree in Ethnic Sports, Xie worked in television on martial arts shows. Roles in...
THE FURIOUS Review: The Action World Has Been Served Notice
A father fights fiercely against ruthless kidnappers to save his abducted daughter.
Tribeca 2026 Review: CROOKS, Film Noir Pastiche Finds Its Footing in Melora Walters' Feral Performance
Mickey Keating writes and directs the genre thriller, starring Angela Trimbur, Keith Kupferer, Joe Swanberg, and Melora Walters.
BY HOOK OR BY CROOK Interview: Harry Dodge and Silas Howard Look Back on Their Landmark Film in Advance of Restoration Tour
In the time since By Hook or by Crook premiered at the 2001 Frameline Film Festival and established itself as a landmark of queer cinema, the two writer/director/stars behind the film have gone in very different directions. Silas Howard has...
Friday One Sheet: THE FURIOUS
Today we have a rather abstract poster from Vietnam-based visual artist Khang Giate for the forthcoming mega-action picture The Furious. Given the 'dog-pile' martial arts style practically pioneered by this film (it is indeed something to behold) this poster does a bang-up...
