Tag: romance
Playback: Nia DaCosta, Life on the Edge, from LITTLE WOODS to 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE
Nia DaCosta gravitates toward stories -- whether intimate dramas, horror reinventions, literary adaptations, or major franchises -- where her characters are pushed into extreme situations. Across these films, human vulnerability and choice remain central, with complex interior lives sharpening as...
SHAW-SHOCK: HORROR COLLECTION VOLUME 2 Brings More Shaw Brothers Chillers Home
Ethereal terrors haunt Imprint's new collection of Shaw Brothers horror films
100 NIGHTS OF HERO Review: Storytelling as a Spell of Resistance
Emma Corrin, Nicholas Galitzine, and Maika Monroe star in Julia Jackman's romantic, queer fantasy film.
RETURN TO REASON Blu-ray Review: The Dizzying Avant Garde of Man Ray
The first years of cinema, the seventh art was treated more as a technological marvel than a device with which to tell stories. Even when the technology progressed and storytelling took over, artists still found ways to explore the...
HIS GIRL FRIDAY 4K Review: Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell Wage One Battle After Another
Directed by Howard Hawks, Criterion's new 2-disc edition includes Lewis Milestone's 'The Front Page,' making for easy comparison between original and remake.
I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! 4K Review: Talking About the Weather
Powell & Pressburger completists will be pleased with the new transfer.
Jacques Audiard Returns to Criterion with Two Acclaimed Crime Thrillers
Jacques Audiard made his Criterion debut back in 2017 with his seventh feature film, Dheepan, and eight years later he's back with two of his earlier titles. Like that movie, Read My Lips and The Beat That My Heart Skipped...
Opening This Week: SISU: ROAD TO REVENGE, ANGEL'S EGG, Plus 2 FYC Contenders and a Drama
Our guide to what's opening this week in movie theaters.
EL 4K Review: Bunuel's Cruelty in High Def
Directed by famed Spanish surrealist Luis Bunuel, El is coming to 4K and Blu-ray tomorrow here in North America, courtesy of our friends at the Criterion Collection. El is the adaptation of Mercedes Pinto’s 1920s novel “He,” which explores the hell...
It's a 4K Western Revival, as SILVERADO and THE QUICK AND THE DEAD Ride Onto UHD
Westerns from Lawrence Kasdan and Sam Raimi are new to 4K UHD steelbook.
Playback: Bill Condon, Spectacle and Secrets from GODS AND MONSTERS to KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN
Bill Condon loves a spectacle, not just for the noise or the glamor, but for the ache that hides behind it. The lonely showman, the fading diva, and the monster who only wants to be seen; Condon tells stories where...
A BIG BOLD BEAUTIFUL JOURNEY Review: Kogonada Directs a Delightful, Whimsical Romantic Fantasy
Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie star.
ANOTHER END Review: Loving Is So Short, Forgetting Is So Long
It's become a familiar science fiction/speculative film premise: what if you could bring someone you love back from the dead, in some way? Perhaps resurrecting them as some kind of zombie, visiting them in some virtual world, or putting their...
Now Streaming: Kogonada's Wondrous Style in PACHINKO and THE ACOLYTE
Director Kogonada displays a sharp sense of time and place in his work.
NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER Returns from Undeserved Obscurity with a Slick and Sweaty 4K Release
An underseen action classic roars back to life on 4K UHD, plus more new releases from KL Studio Classics.
Toronto 2025 Review: MILE END KICKS, Kicking Down the Door of Self-Worth, Romcom Style
To be a young woman who yearns for work and some form of success in a male-dominated industry, especially one in which you will achieve some public notoriety, is setting yourself up for a challenge of epic proportions. I wish I...
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MILE END KICKS: Stars Barbie Ferreira, Devon Bostick Feature in New Still From Chandler Levack's Rom-Com
A 24-year-old music critic gets romantically involved with members of an indie band she decides to publicize, set against Montreal's indie music scene in 2011.
SAVING FACE Blu-ray Review: Alice Wu's Crowd-Pleasing Romantic Comedy
Director Alice Wu's gem of early-aughts cinema joins the Criterion Collection.
Now Streaming: Timo Tjahjanto, Before NOBODY 2
Where to watch the director's distinctively crafted. action- and/or horror-packed films.
Friday One Sheet: MY SUNSHINE
I am feeling whimsical in the back half of summer, and this simple design for Hiroshi Okuyama's nostalgic love story, My Sunshine, is doing the trick. Normally the Koreans excel at this kind of design, where there is little fuss...
