Reframe

Antonia Bird’s Priest begins with a crescendo. A man sits on a park bench, picks up a large wooden cross...

Normally, when I write one of these "Reframe" pieces, I re-watch the film I'm about to cover. That’s not true...

The Insider, Michael Mann’s follow up to Heat, was critically lauded. Unlike its predecessor, it was recognized by the Academy...

It all starts with a dog. An impossibly beautiful pit bull that bartender (and maybe more) Bob Saginowski finds wounded...

It's an odd distinction being the least successful film with Hannibal Lecter in it. It's a fate that Michael Mann's...

Over the last quarter century, it's hard to think of a movie more polarizing than Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers....

It’s easy to forget that Michael Mann’s classic crime film HEAT was a relatively modest success nearly a quarter century...

American Gigolo holds a somewhat odd position in Paul Schrader's career. The first two films he directed, Bue Collar and...

When director Jonathan Demme’s Philadelphia was released in 1993, it was a watershed moment. As the first big studio film...

The late Tony Scott had a reputation that was forever in the shadow of his brother Ridley. His older brother...

Purple Rain arrived in theatres on July 27, 1984. Prince was a well-known and controversial musician by then. He had...

I may not make a lot of friends saying it, but Jackie Brown to me was the last time Tarantino...

I wish John Cazale had lived long enough to make a bad movie. Not only for his own sake, or...

To my considerable shame, it took the death of Robby Muller to make me realize just how many of my...

It might be hard to remember that when Out of Sight came out almost 20 years ago to the day...

I was born in the very small town of Pikeville, Kentucky. At the age of 4 my mother took us...

When ...And Justice For All was released October 19, 1979, it was reasonably well received by critics and moviegoers. Reviews...