Criterion | 1955 | 108 min | NR Released in 1955, Ingmar Bergman’s 16th film, Smiles of a Summer Night would give the director his first taste of international success. Few would argue that Bergman was very serious director. While…
Starz / Anchor Bay | 2010 | 114 min | R I missed Blue Valentine in theaters, but after hearing and reading so much about it, I was anxious to check it out for myself. Now having done that, I’ll…
Disney / Buena Vista | 2004 | 115 min | PG I’ll state it right off the top—even seven years after its release, The Incredibles remains one of my animated favorites. Writer/director Brad Bird is one of the best in…
HD Cinema Classics | 1963 | 75 min | NR Produced by Roger Corman and directed by Francis Ford Coppola, 1963’s Dementia 13 is based on a script that Coppola co-wrote with second unit director Jack Hill. While far from…
Warner Bros. | 2010 | 146 min | PG-13 The decision to divide J.K. Rowling’s seventh novel into two separate films remains a controversial one, but director David Yates and screenwriter Steve Kloves have taken full advantage of the opportunity…
20th Century Fox | 2010 | 77 min | NR Glee is officially a juggernaut. Have some doubts? As of February, the Fox TV musical’s fictitious New Directions show choir has placed 113 songs in the Top 100, beating out…
Image Entertainment | 2011 | 91 mins. | R I have to think the makers of The Resident thought this film was going to be something better when they set out to make it. How else can you explain Oscar…
Criterion | 1969 | 111 mins. | NR Based on the Barry Hines novel “A Kestrel for a Knave,” Kes is an unsentimental, provocative, and touching portrait of poverty, marginalization and despair. In the poor, working class coal mining town…
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | 1971 | 181 mins. | G Opening in September of 1964, the Harold Prince production of Fiddler on the Roof was inarguably one of the most beloved stage musicals of the second half of the 20th century. Based…
Warner Bros. | 1961 | 168 mins. | PG-13 The second of producer Samuel Bronston’s big-gauge roadshow epics filmed in Spain, King of Kings (1961) is a tasteful rendering of the Christ story and was MGM’s follow-up to their phenomenally…