We don’t think it’s too controversial (or too nerdy) to say that The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy is essential to any physical media collection. They’re universally beloved, they swept ...

20 years after the conclusion of the original film trilogy, The Lord of the Rings returned to the zeitgeist with a beautifully shot half-billion-dollar season of television, and the promise of new ...

Birdman of Alcatraz is not really a prison picture in the traditional and accepted sense of the term. Birdman reverses the formula and brings a new breadth and depth to the form. In telling ...

American movies are still breathing. It merely took a special film like Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Birdman to reinvigorate them. It’s a film no one expected but one for which we’re utterly grateful ...