An aging man, Paul (Marlon Brando), whose wife has recently and without explanation taken her own life. A young woman, Jeanne (Maria Schneider), on the verge of marriage. A chance meeting leaves th...
2023-03-25 02:55:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Five losers, buried in debt after the collapse of Japan’s economic bubble in the 1990s, decide to rob the Yakuza. You’d be hard-pressed to think up a more shopworn plot, but Takashi Ishii’s <...
2023-03-24 17:43:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Tonight's screening of Fruit Chan Gong's Dumplings begins at 7pm EST!
2023-03-22 17:23:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Seaman Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) sculpts something indefinite from the damp sand at the ocean’s edge, then abandons it as the tide rolls in. Some time later, he joins other sailors in ...
2023-03-21 00:21:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's screening of Julia Ducournau's RAW begins at 1pm EST, with an encore to follow at 7!
2023-03-19 14:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Tonight's showing of Marina de Van's In My Skin begins at 7pm EST!
2023-03-15 22:09:55 +0000 UTC View Post
“This is all gonna be a lake, hundreds and hundreds of feet deep. You ever look at a lake and think about the things buried under it? That’s about as buried as anything can get.” There is a d...
2023-03-14 20:08:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy dominated the early and mid 2000s so thoroughly you could buy the books in most grocery stories. One might be forgiven for assuming their tremendous popularity ...
2023-03-12 20:00:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's first screening of Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre begins at 1pm EST, with an encore to follow at 7!
2023-03-12 14:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's first screening of Antonia Bird's Ravenous begins at 1pm, with an encore to follow at 7.
2023-03-05 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Watching Joker is like sitting next to a profoundly unwell person on the subway as they ramble through a recitation of ‘The Aristocrats’, the infamously sick and revolting anti-joke wh...
2023-03-04 20:43:16 +0000 UTC View Post
This month in the Deadlights Theater it's all cannibals all the time.
3/1: BONE TOMAHAWK, 7pm
3/5: RAVENOUS, 1 and 7pm
3/8: WE ARE WHAT WE ARE, 7pm
3/12: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW ...
2023-03-01 19:49:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Tonight's screening of S. Craig Zahler's Bone Tomahawk begins at 7pm EST!
2023-03-01 15:26:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's first showing of Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man begins at 1pm EST, with an encore to follow tonight at 7!
2023-02-26 17:19:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I almost admire this franchise’s total disregard for title consistency. What the fuck is F9: The Fast Saga supposed to mean? What kind of insider knowledge of the production of and mytho...
2023-02-25 02:17:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I kind of love the lizard-brained simplicity of pitting Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) against his own family by giving him another, more vulnerable family for the villainous super-hacker Cipher (Charliz...
2023-02-25 01:13:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's screening of David Prior's The Empty Man begins at 7pm EST!
2023-02-22 17:06:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's screening of Ben Wheatley's Kill List begins at 1pm EST, with an encore to follow at 7!
2023-02-19 15:36:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's screening of Karyn Kusama's The Invitation begins at 7pm EST!
2023-02-15 18:29:28 +0000 UTC View Post
James Wan looked at Fast 6’s “too much of a good thing” philosophy and thought, “okay, but what if there was MORE?” I am sickened to report that the result, even subjected to Wan...
2023-02-15 03:13:40 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s bigger! It’s dumber! It’s a full-blown spy action movie with giant planes, armored ramp cars, Luke Evans as a deadly English ex-special forces killer, and a tank hidden inside a cargo tr...
2023-02-14 22:26:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Right out of the gate Fast 5 makes it clear that it’s abandoning the leanness of Tokyo Drift altogether for the absurd superheroics of Fast and Furious, its immediate p...
2023-02-14 20:34:23 +0000 UTC View Post
If Fast & Furious represents a return to the meatheaded stupidity and cartoonish logic of the first two films after the brief respite of Tokyo Drift’s low stakes and relativ...
2023-02-12 22:22:08 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s incredible how going from two total visual incompetents to Justin Lin, a guy who basically knows where to point a camera, makes Tokyo Drift feel like it was shot by Kubrick in compa...
2023-02-12 19:40:15 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s remarkable that even with the removal of Vin Diesel and the doubling down on Paul Walker’s unwatchable performance as now-disgraced cop Brian Spilner, 2 Fast 2 Furious somehow com...
2023-02-12 15:28:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's presentation of Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master begins at 1pm EST, with an encore at 7!
2023-02-12 14:35:15 +0000 UTC View Post
The single most devastating thing about this movie is that Rob Cohen has absolutely no idea how to convey a sense of speed. He tries, I’ll give him that much. Shaky-cam, weak CGI, sped-up footage...
2023-02-12 03:20:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Tonight's screening of The Final Exit of the Disciples of Ascenscia begins at 7pm, with an encore to follow at 8.
2023-02-08 15:49:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Every time I read one of those op-eds where a rich kid talks half-guiltily about displacing someone fr...
2023-02-08 04:45:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Today's first showing of Małgorzata Szumowska's The Other Lamb begins at 1pm, with an encore to follow at 7!
2023-02-05 15:21:16 +0000 UTC View Post