Shibuya’s Theater N may not exactly fit the definition of a grindhouse — its polite staff and lack of dodgy-looking stains on the seats rule that out — but any cinema doing a late-show revival of 1978′s notorious “I Spit on Your Grave” earns ...

A guy’s on a trip to Paris with his fiancee. Gil (Owen Wilson) is a hack Hollywood screenwriter bemoaning the fact that he never became a “real” author and, besotted by the city’s charms, toys with the idea of staying and doing just that. ...

There are plenty of anecdotes about the late John Cassavetes — the director often cited as the “godfather of American independent cinema” — but my favorite is the one regarding an advance screening he did for his 1977 film “Opening Night,” about an alcoholic ...

Dear reader, heed my warning: verily, the undead live. Not rotten-fleshed zombies or nocturnal ghouls, but old TV series from the 1960s and ’70s, resurrected from the moldering vaults where they lay and given new life by devious Hollywood necromancers. In this deal with ...

Arguably the greatest legacy of Bill Clinton’s time in the White House is that fellatio jokes entered the mainstream. It’s damn near impossible these days to find an American comedy that doesn’t include a sniggering blow-job reference in the first five minutes, and the ...

The embalming of rock history continues apace, and some days it seems as if every band that had a following in the 1960s or ’70s is getting a rockumentary of its own. There’s a reason for that, and it’s not just boomer nostalgia: Bands ...

You can do just about anything in Hollywood — stints in rehab, wife-beating, being arrested for lewd conduct, or drunk-driving topped off with a few anti-Semitic remarks, to name but a few — but the one thing they’ll never forgive you for is spurning ...

The word out on “Bridesmaids” is that it’s a successful port of the Judd Apatow-style bromantic comedy to the chick-flick platform. That’s partly true: The coarse humor, the emphasis on how people act when members of the opposite sex aren’t around and the emotional ...

Just in time for the 100th anniversary of its first publication, “Tarzan” author Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “A Princess of Mars” gets the 3-D blockbuster treatment from Disney under the revised title “John Carter.” This new franchise should have been a sure thing, with a ...

One has to admire “The Artist” for it’s sheer chutzpah: the idea that someone can make a silent, black-and-white movie in this day and age and achieve massive Oscar-winning success is nearly unthinkable. Yet that is exactly what director Michel Hazanavicius has done with ...