How CRIME 101 Learned From BLACKHAT’s Failure to Launch The specter of Michael Mann looms over Crime 101 from first moment to last. While the new film, currently in theaters, began as a novella from (the great) Don Winslow, there’s no way to watch the moody L.A.-set thriller and not think back to the likes […] The post Chris Hemsworth’s Many Mann-ly Efforts first appeared on Cinapse.

You know the familiar old action movie trope of “aging hitman needs to do one last job before retiring”. It’s a formula, definitely, but tried and true. The Old Woman with the Knife is pretty much that same formula, only with a hitwoman. You wouldn’t necessarily think that would change the whole game, but it […] The post THE OLD WOMAN WITH THE KNIFE – A New Take on a Familiar Trope first appeared on Cinapse.

Warren Oates stars as the famed criminal in AIP’s 1973 period crime classic Note: The screenshots in this article are not sourced from this MGM Blu-ray and only included for illustrative purposes. I’ve always had interest in the Dust Bowl and Depression era United States. In high school I made it the focus of a […] The post Back on Blu: DILLINGER, the Directorial Debut of John Milius first appeared on Cinapse.

The screenwriter of Junebug directs this understated Southern family drama led by David Strathairn Angus Maclachlan’s drama A Little Prayer, set in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, stars David Strathairn (Good Night and Good Luck, Sneakers) as Bill, the patriarch of a small family. Son David (Will Pullen, Dickinson, Lilly) and his wife Tammy (Jane Levy, TV’s […] The post A LITTLE PRAYER (2025) Is a Quiet Gem [Blu-ray Review] first appeared on Cinapse.

Two Cents is a Cinapse original column akin to a book club for films. The Cinapse team curates the series and contribute their “two cents” using a maximum of 200-400 words. Guest contributors and comments are encouraged, as are suggestions for future picks. Join us as we share our two cents on films we love, films […] The post No Christians Allowed! Two Cents Thrills and Chills Kicks Off with TROLLHUNTER first appeared on Cinapse.

“Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” The new screen adaptation of Wuthering Heights has already gotten its fair share of criticism from those who have gotten an advanced peek, many of whom have taken issue with writer/director Emerald Fennell’s highly erotic take on the classic novel. The movie’s endless […] The post WUTHERING HEIGHTS is Destined to Divide and Enrapture first appeared on Cinapse.

“I need to be in your line of work.” Watching Crime 101 made me miss the straight-to-DVD/blu-ray times severely, specifically that window of space between the mid-late 00s and the early 10s when that area of film seemed to offer up titles in abundance. The combination of established stars and genuine talent come together for […] The post CRIME 101 is a Lesson in Basics first appeared on Cinapse.

Emerald Fennell’s new interpretation of the beloved novel is its own beast. A confession upfront: I have never read Wuthering Heights. Going into the latest adaptation, the third film from Oscar-winning writer-director Emerald Fennell, I was blind as to what to expect. I had heard of Heathcliff, and how he was the archetypal Gothic romance […] The post WUTHERING HEIGHTS Offers Unfaithful Fanfic to a Gothic Classic first appeared on Cinapse.

One of the great things about revisiting movies over the years is how your reaction changes as you change over time. It’s a nice way to chart your personal growth and see how your tastes have matured. Even when I’ve soured on a movie I once liked, I still find it useful to look back […] The post Is Eli Roth’s CABIN FEVER Still Infectious Fun Two Decades Later? first appeared on Cinapse.

The coming-of-age film is a familiar genre, but NB Mager takes on something far more daring in Run Amok, which recently screened as part of Sundance’s online program. The film follows the firebrand fr...

The concept of hacking has evolved drastically over the years, and Joybubbles, which just screened at Sundance, paints a vivid portrait of Joe Engressia — also known as Joybubbles — one of the origina...

I was lucky enough to catch Whistle as the closing-night film at Fantastic Fest, and it’s haunted me ever since. The ’90s throwback centers on a cursed Aztec death whistle — and honestly, the moment I first learned such a thing existed, I knew someone would eventually build a horror movie around it. I’d been […] The post WHISTLE: A ’90s Horror Throwback With Teeth first appeared on Cinapse.

The Huntress (La Cazadora) is a bracing reframe of what, at first glance, might look like a straightforward revenge-o-matic. Drawing from real-life events in the border city of Juárez, Mexico, the film instead tells a far more nuanced and devastating story about a woman who decides she can no longer survive by staying silent. Set […] The post Sundance 2026: THE HUNTRESS (LA CAZADORA) Turns Vengeance Into Survival first appeared on Cinapse.

With concert films now a cinematic rite of passage — offering fans one last communal high while doubling as a farewell cash-in — it takes something special to bend the format into something new. Enter Charli XCX, one of pop’s most restless shape-shifters, who uses The Moment (Now open in NY and LA) to give […] The post Sundance 2026: THE MOMENT – Brat, But Make It Cinema first appeared on Cinapse.

We stand at a moment when American history is being rewritten in real time—one that erases the struggles of immigrants, enslaved people, and Indigenous communities forced to sustain the project of colonization we call the United States of America. Against that backdrop, it feels like a rare and necessary act of resistance when a filmmaker […] The post Sundance 2026: ROCK SPRINGS Is a Haunted Reckoning with America’s Forgotten Chinese History first appeared on Cinapse.

I was lucky enough to catch Whistle (Which opens in theaters FRIDAY, FEB 6th) as the closing-night film at Fantastic Fest, and it’s haunted me ever since. The ’90s throwback centers on a cursed Aztec death whistle — and honestly, the moment I first learned such a thing existed, I knew someone would eventually build […] The post WHISTLE Director Corin Hardy on Death Whistles, ’90s Horror, and What’s Next first appeared on Cinapse.

Jim Jarmusch’s bleak satire of the Wild West makes its way to 4K from Criterion. Dead Man is a pitch perfect example of the pure versatility of the western genre. The ultimate American genre, westerns have been our way of mythologizing ourselves for over 200 years. Stories of a once untamed western frontier have inspired […] The post Criterion Brings Jim Jarmusch’s Darkly Humorous Western DEAD MAN To 4K! first appeared on Cinapse.

Night Nurse was one of the most pleasantly unhinged surprises I caught at Sundance. The last thing I expected walking in was an erotic thriller slithering through the darker, more taboo corners of caregiving—but that’s exactly what Georgia Bernstein delivers. Written and directed with wicked confidence, the film follows Eleni (Cemre Paksoy), a young nurse […] The post Sundance 2026: Night Nurse Turns Caregiving Into a Darkly Horny Nightmare first appeared on Cinapse.

Remembering Diane Keaton on her birthday month. Two Cents is a Cinapse original column akin to a book club for films. The Cinapse team curates the series and contributes their “two cents” using a maximum of 200-400 words. Guest contributors and comments are encouraged, as are suggestions for future picks. Join us as we share our […] The post A Keaton Curation: SOMETHING’S GOTTA GIVE [Two Cents] first appeared on Cinapse.

This article contains comparisons which contrast Warner Archive’s new 4K restoration against the prior 2006 Blu-ray, also from Warner Bros. The frames aren’t necessarily exact matches, but should give a solid indication of the visual differences. Arguably the most beloved film from one of cinema’s greatest directors, John Ford’s sprawling widescreen saga The Searchers was […] The post The Archivist: THE SEARCHERS 4K Remaster Befuddles our Home Video Editor – Check Out the Screen Comparisons first appeared on Cinapse.

Edward Yang’s Yi Yi is the kind of movie that’s intimidating to write about at first glance. A classic that has been evaluated, canonized, and praised many times over in the quarter-century since its release that surely there isn’t anything left to be said about the film. I don’t claim to have had any major […] The post Criterion Review: Edward Yang’s YI YI [4K UHD] first appeared on Cinapse.