Labyrinth (1986)
Labyrinth is the strangest mainstream studio film of 1986 and the last great Jim Henson production. Terry Jones, of Monty Python, wrote the screenplay.
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1970sWizards (1977) Review
Wizards is one of the substantial adult animated productions of the late 1970s and one of the most distinctive Ralph Bakshi feature productions. He had directed Fritz the Cat in 1972, Heavy Traffic in 1973, and Coonskin in 1975 before…
1970sDark Star (1974) Review
Carpenter and O'Bannon were graduate students. The film follows the crew of the deep space scout ship Dark Star during the twenty-second year of their mission.
1980sAngel (1984) and the Franchise Review
Donna Wilkes, Rory Calhoun, Susan Tyrrell, and pre-gentrification Hollywood Boulevard. Exploitation cinema that survives in spite of itself.
1990sShowgirls (1995) Review
Read as a Verhoeven satire of the American Dream, the film makes sense. The 7 accounts honestly for execution problems that remain even when the satirical reading lands.
Cult ClassicMovies Rotten Tomatoes Got Dead Wrong
Twenty-one films that Rotten Tomatoes scored wrong, from Blade Runner's lukewarm 1982 reception to Soldier's inexplicable 10%. Why critics get films wrong, what the aggregator measures, and the political bias that explains why Disney's worst remakes score 90% while audiences…
Cult ClassicThe Greatest Guilty Pleasure Films
Twenty-one films you cannot defend and cannot stop watching, from Flash Gordon to The Swinging Cheerleaders. The guilty pleasure gives you something better films don't. The guilt is about how you look enjoying it, not about anything the film does.…
Cult ClassicMidnight Movies and the Films That Found Their People
From Rocky Horror to Scott Pilgrim, twenty films the mainstream missed, ignored, or couldn't categorize, and the devoted audiences who found them anyway. What made each one a cult classic, and what writers can learn from films that knew exactly…
Cult ClassicOverlooked Genre Films
Twenty slow-burn sci-fi and fantasy films that earned their setup. From Mortal to Prospect: character-driven, grounded, and overlooked. If you missed them, find them.
Cult ClassicScience Fiction Part 4 – The Very Good
The fourth tier of the science fiction ranking. Carpenter, Kubrick, Scott, Cameron and Verhoeven, plus the films that built their worlds out of constraint.