”There’s a wrenching resignation in Kristofferson’s eyes when his demo tapes are ignored by industry players who only called for his drug connections. The movie chronicles an ego death by a thousand pinpricks, the most amusingly brutal being when a groupie played by Joy Bang tells Kristofferson and Stanton that their big hit was her favorite song in junior high.” – Crooked Marquee, 07/12/2024

“Unfulfilled longing runs the circle ‘round in Jacques Demy’s enchanting, heartsick 1961 debut, a film in which — as the song goes — everybody needs somebody to love, even when they don’t love you back. To Demy, a poet of heartache, unrequited love remains an essential and inevitable element of the human condition; the most wonderful, horrible part of being alive.” – Crooked Marquee, 06/28/2024

”Schrader and Springsteen have always shared simpatico sensibilities, wearing their small town, religious upbringings on their sleeves. The alienated loners driving all night on albums like Darkness On The Edge Of Town and Nebraska could easily be Paul Schrader protagonists, and the plot of Blue Collar sounds like something out of a Springsteen song.” – Crooked Marquee, 06/26/2024

“Ashby’s melancholy sex farce about a habitually horny hairdresser and the comings and goings of California girls is a Restoration comedy transplanted to Beverly Hills. This bawdy tale of musical beds has a gossamer touch hiding a heavy heart. It’s a lot of silly screwing and running around until the last shot of the film sneaks up on you, packing an unexpected wallop.” – Crooked Marquee, 06/14/2024

”Scrappy, confrontational and blessedly unconcerned with respectability politics, these pictures came from a community in crisis. They’re often furious documents, raging against societal and government indifference to a plague that’s powerfully felt even in the films where AIDS is never explicitly mentioned. Celebrate Pride month with six of these trailblazing titles.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 06/03/2024

“An integral part of my childhood, The Blues Brothers taught me the foundations of American music, introducing me to Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and James Brown at a time when you’d never hear them on the radio. It also taught me that cops, Nazis and good old boys are to be mercilessly mocked and messed with. Especially when you’re on a mission from God.” – Crooked Marquee, 05/31/2024

“It’s the kind of movie that tends to haunt viewers with memories that linger for years after the credits roll. There’s simply no shaking this Lancaster performance. The star was famous for his smarts and athletic prowess, yet his best roles explore the self-delusion behind that swagger. He’s fearless here, a towering failure, and we can’t look away from his collapse.” – Crooked Marquee, 05/17/2024

”One of the director’s breeziest, most consistently delightful efforts. Until the final scenes sneak up on you. Cecilia is a surrogate for our sometimes troubling but inescapably romantic relationship with the movies. These silly fantasies might be no good for anybody, but life would be unbearable without them. As someone once said, the heart wants what it wants.” – Crooked Marquee, 04/26/2024

”We used to worry a lot about selling out back then. The coolest celebrities treated their popularity as an affliction, and the only thing worse than being famous was wanting to be. In an age when everyone’s thirsty for likes and follows, characters carrying on about integrity must sound like alien transmissions from a distant solar system that burned out centuries ago.” – WBUR’s Arts & Culture, 04/23/2024