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On the lasting, profound influence of one of the creative world’s most cryptic yet loving minds.

Aided by creative consultant Joe Dante, NBC’s single-season sci-fi/horror series offered the same philosophical phantasmagoria and small-town charm of Twin Peaks to much younger viewers.

With his American remake of his own 1989 action classic The Killer hitting streaming this weekend, we look back on the only theme more prominent than excessive bloodshed in the director’s dense filmography.

The latest decades-old film to find new life as a prestige miniseries, Alan Pakula’s 1990 courtroom drama was a respectable story of murder and marriage unfairly dismissed by critics.

Newly restored by Criterion, the 1960 psychological thriller has taken on a life of its own after serving the role of Psycho’s black-sheep sibling upon its initial release.

Michael Mann’s late-’80s spiritual sequel to Miami Vice laid the groundwork for modern TV’s series-long story arcs—and was taken off the air for it after two seasons.

With the late New Hollywood provocateur’s films populating the Criterion Channel’s April lineup, we investigate the inexhaustible theme that ties The Exorcist and Sorcerer to Cruising and Jade.

Inexplicably and wonderfully re-released in 4K by Kino Lorber, the 1990 family comedy (and dramatic role change for its star) is endlessly charming entertainment.

Far from a return to form, the HBO series’ fourth season still lives up to the expectations set by its inexplicable first.

Under the guise of disposable Netflix entertainment, the director’s latest film takes the trashy plot aspect of his career and slits it belly-open to show us what’s inside.

The tragic undertones of Brian De Palma’s 1976 adaptation of Stephen King’s debut horror novel are anchored by a staggering performance by the late Piper Laurie.

With FOX’s cult-classic sci-fi series debuting three decades ago this weekend, we look back at how its tension and technique felt ahead of its time for a mainstream TV audience.

As moviegoers today are smothered with an endless torrent of computer-spawned apocalyptic action, something this intimately human is a breath of fresh air.

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One reminds us which movie stars Cruise feels most descendent from: Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Jackie Chan.

More scandalous than a flushing toilet, Richard Franklin’s intelligently written 1983 sequel to the Hitchcock horror classic never succumbs to the clichés its forebear established.

Eulogizing Bill Hader’s black comedy series, one of the most achingly human shows of the post-Sopranos era.

Despite the occasional flash of creativity, the latest installment in the Evil Dead franchise is a drab and self-serious outlier within Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell’s eccentric series.

The character actor with memorable roles in Saving Private Ryan, Natural Born Killers, and Heat passed away last week at 61.

Darren Aronofsky’s often-unpleasant adaptation of Samuel D. Hunter’s play is buoyed only by a beautifully empathetic performance by Brendan Fraser.