With New Line’s A History of Violence, director David Cronenberg once again poses fascinating questions of identity and the nature of reality. He... »

Director Ernst Lubitsch’s last great work from 1943 (and first film in color), in collaboration with his favorite writer, Samson Raphaelson, is a... »

Director Ron Howard has long had a fascination with the Depression, hearing about it from family and friends while growing up in Oklahoma, and... »

The horror film that put Steven Spielberg on the map and launched the summer blockbuster, changing movie marketing forever, has just received a 30th... »

It has been said that director Ridley Scott gets more intimate with each epic. For Twentieth Century Fox’s Kingdom of Heaven he turned to the... »

A precursor to Desperate Housewives, Joe Mankiewicz’s smart and sassy 1949 melodrama concerns three catty upper-middle-class housewives (Jeanne... »

There are certain ironies in Million Dollar Baby beating out The Aviator for the best picture Oscar this year, not the least of which is that Martin... »

That’s Entertainment!, That’s Entertainment, Part II and That’s Entertainment Part III! (Warner Home Video) Back in 1974, when the musical and... »

Ever since her acclaimed work on Elizabeth, Alexandra Byrne has become the go-to period costume designer. In fact, she has exclusively stuck with... »

By Bill Desowitz Director Mike Nichols is the first to acknowledge that Closer is a close cousin to his near-classic Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?... »