High and Low
September 26, 1986 | For moviegoers who associate Akira Kurosawa only with the teeming majesty of Ran and Kagemusha, or the kinetic adventure of The Hidden Fortress and Seven Samurai,…
The Immortal Akira Kurosawa
The Belcourt Theater in Nashville and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will present Kurosawa retrospectives in August 2025. Throughout much of his life in his native Japan, Akira Kurosawa…
Pomp, Polanksi & Paranoia: Remembering Cannes 1986
Some folks were afraid terrorists would strike. Others were suspicious that the fix was in. May 22, 2025 | “So how come Rambo isn’t coming here, eh?” The question, posed…
Robert Benton Talks About Texas Ties And Making Movies
August 2, 1987 | Thomas Wolfe was mistaken: You can go home again. And if you’re Robert Benton, the only triple Oscar winner ever raised in Waxahachie, Texas, you can…
Fruitvale Station
July 19, 2013 | Although he has a real-life story of relatively recent vintage to tell in Fruitvale Station – one that, in light of the Trayvon Martin killing and its…
Billy Joel on Oliver & Company
November 28, 1988 | Pop star Billy Joel makes his movie debut, sort of, in this year’s holiday package from Walt Disney Productions, Oliver & Company. You can’t actually see…
Action Jackson
February 12, 1988 | Faster than a speeding hit man, more powerful than a ninja killer, and able to leap over careening taxis in a single bound: Jericho Jackson is…
Happy 120th Birthday to Cary Grant
January 18, 2024 | For more than three generations, almost until the very day of his death at age 82 in 1986, Cary Grant was the gold standard for scintillating…
Household Saints
October 1, 1993 | During an intense heat wave in the summer of 1949, some cardplayers in New York’s Little Italy go a little crazy. Joseph Santangelo (Vincent D’Onofrio), a sly…
Four Little Girls
February 20, 1998| Time is a thief that robs us of the past. As years go by, memories fade, outrage cools and witnesses are forever silenced. Which is all the more…