This 35-track, triple disc DVD collection is such an important and significant pop-culture package that it might scare your unsuspecting holiday recipient into thinking you're saying something more than merely Happy Whatever.

Dennis Lehane so rules the neighborhood of Noir ("Nwaaah," as we say in Boston) that he gets street credit for work he didn't write, like "The Departe...

She speaks truth to power - or at least to silly pretension - with aplomb and fearlessness. Mice, however, are another matter for Fran Lebowitz. It'...

Fifty years after La Dolce Vita's original release, the film has been restored from its original widescreen negative for the clean up of a lifetime.

George Lois, advertising giant whose agency, Papert Koenig Lois, produced a decade of fearless magazine covers for Esquire during the turbulent '60s t...

When you graduate from college, you often do things that compromise your dignity. Some people become telemarketers or work at American Apparel. I audition for reality shows like The Real World.

In the spirit of Yom Kippur, let us take a few moments to finally let go of a few alleged transgressions in recent cinema history. Don't do it for them, do it for yourself.

At the age of 42, director Francois Ozon is known in the U.S. primarily for films such as 8 Women and Swimming Pool. A student of Eric Rohmer, he sees...

Crime has not just been good to the criminals; it's been awfully good to Hollywood as well.

Jackie Earle Haley was a teen star when he was 15 and a has-been by his 30s. And then, suddenly, having ditched the business for 15 years, he once a...

In the second installment of Cinefantastique's new weekly podcast, Dan Persons, Steve Biodrowski, and Lawrence French look at Martin Scorsese's new ho...

If you believed the movies, to venture across the George Washington Bridge is to court danger down every street. But NYC's not alone in this treatment by Hollywood, and we've got the filmed documentation to prove it.

Red insists that art matters; so does Red matter in all its dark, dramatic hues.

The Los Angeles punk music scene is at the center of The Runaways, which opened in limited release on March 19 and goes wider in a couple of weeks.

At Cannes, Gael García Bernal spoke about his directorial adventure with Revolución, a film intended to "make something out of what we think of what.. happened to Mexico during the last 100 years after the Revolution."

In the brand new Shrek Forever After, an ill-advised pact with a conniving Rumpelstiltskin (Walt Dohrn) turns reality upside-down for everyone's favor...

In the midst of the hysteria, disappointments, and madcap media free-for-all that has become integral to Cannes, remember Visconti's The Leopard.

Much has already been written about Shutter Island, but my perspective may be different because the film reminded me of my own state of mind years ago, in 1999, when I was having my second psychotic break.

I see the same critics who are blasting Shutter Island today as the ones who'll rethink their initial scorn and see the film for what it is: an unconventional spellbinding psychological thriller.