Movies & TV

A twisted treasure from Hollywood's pre-Code horror heyday, ISLAND OF LOST SOULS is a cautionary tale of science run amok adapted from H. G. Wellss novel THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU. In one of his first major movie roles, Charles Laughton (THE PRIVATE LIFE...

On the news of her last child's passing, 80-year-old Lesotho widow Mantoa (Mary Twala Mhlongo) resignedly went about wrapping up her affairs and waiting for the end. Upon finding that a governmental dam project stands to flood out her impoverished...

A Tokyo detective's (Koji Yakusho) investigation of a series of grisly and bizarre murders, committed by seemingly average citizens who can't explain their motives, leads him to a mysterious and amnesiac drifter (Masato Hagiwara) who possesses an almost...

Jacques Offenbach's fantasy work is magnificently brought to the screen by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ("The Red Shoes"). Robert Rounseville stars in the title role of the German romanticist, regaling a tavern crowd about his fantastical but...

For his acclaimed follow-up to Man Push Cart, Ramin Bahrani once again turned his camera on a slice of New York City rarely seen on-screen: Willets Point, Queens, an industrial sliver of automotive-repair shops that remains perpetually at risk of being...

Wes Anderson brings his dry wit and visual inventiveness to this exquisite caper set amid the old-world splendor of Europe between the World Wars. At the opulent Grand Budapest Hotel, the concierge M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) and his young protege Zero...

One of the 1960s' great international art-house sensations, Woman in the Dunes was for many the grand unveiling of the surreal, idiosyncratic world of Hiroshi Teshigahara (The Face of Another). Eiji Okada (Hiroshima mon amour) plays an amateur...

Ernest Hemingway's simple but gripping short tale ''The Killers'' is a model of economical storytelling. Two directors adapted it into unforgettably virile features: Robert Siodmak (Criss Cross), in a 1946 film that helped define the noir style and...

In early-'60s Louisiana, young Eve Batiste (Jurnee Smollett) was troubled by the indiscretions of her loving but philandering doctor father Louis (Samuel L. Jackson). Her turning to a local voodoo queen (Diahann Carroll) for resolution may have...

Richard Roundtree is John Shaft, "the black private dick who's a sex machine with all the chicks," in this action-packed blaxploitation classic that spawned two sequels and a TV series. Hired to track down a Harlem ganglord's missing daughter, Shaft must...

For his first studio picture, filth maestro John Waters took advantage of his biggest budget yet to allow his muse Divine to sink his teeth into a role unlike any he had played before: Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw, a heroine worthy of a Douglas...

After a decade in the wilds of avant-garde and early video experimentation, Jean-Luc Godard returned to commercial cinema with this star-driven work of social commentary, while remaining defiantly intellectual and formally cutting-edge. EVERY MAN FOR...