In The Abyss, his most intimate and idiosyncratic film, James Cameron takes us to the bottom of the ocean in order to discover what it means to be human.
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With The Terminator, James Cameron arrives on the stage as a director in full control of his craft, delivering one of the greatest science fiction films of all time.
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Anders looks at the five films in the Exorcist franchise and looks at how each one expands on the original.
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The Brothers discuss, among other things, the merits of “elevated horror,” schlock, gore, silly ideas, and the nature of the horror genre.
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20 years on Shyamalan’s film is still an effective extraterrestrial thriller, but it’s in the human emotions and performances where it really shines.
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Robert Eggers’ The Northman is a violent Viking epic that offers a portrait of the past as an alien experience yet recognizably human.
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This documentary on the phenomenon of chronic Lyme disease may not make a slam dunk case, but it offers plenty of musings on the nature of medical diagnosis and treatment for a society emerging from a global pandemic.
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This adaptation of the popular graphic novel series for kids is somewhat charming, but still falls prey to many of today’s worst excesses in contemporary children’s animated fare.
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Anders shares his top films of 2021, including Annette, Licorice Pizza, and The Tragedy of Macbeth.
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The Brothers cap off their Zack Snyder Retrospective by offering their individual rankings of his films.
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Stuart Gordon’s cult classic Lovecraft adaptation starring Jeffrey Combs is a dark comedy of memorable grotesquery.
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Zack Snyder’s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice is a thematically and visually rich film that takes its place among the best Batman and Superman stories of the last few decades.
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Zack Snyder’s genre pastiche attempts to deconstruct the role of women in popular culture with this action fantasia, but isn’t entirely successful.
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With his successful cinematic rendering of Watchmen, Zack Snyder shows the fascination and power of the superhero on film.
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The story of Mohamedou Ould Salahi and his 14 year imprisonment is affecting, but Kevin McDonald’s film doesn’t quite do it justice.
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Fellini’s La Strada is the touching story of a naif making her way in a travelling circus in post-war Italy.
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American Utopia has been billed a successor to the Talking Heads’ masterful Stop Making Sense, but while the music is good as always, this show doesn’t quite live up to its promise.
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Revisiting Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon on its 20th anniversary confirms this moving, wuxia epic as one of the great international films of all-time.
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Dark Water is a creepy and water-logged entry in the J-horror genre, but its human drama is what makes it particularly memorable and disturbing.
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This documentary by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei paints a portrait of contemporary China through the lens of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan.
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