Sam Raimi

"Rise of the Planet of the Apes": Origin Story Shines When Apes Are Onscreen, Falters with Humans

On the Wings of Love

What To Do? Tales From Terror Town at Mezzanine

Set photo from "The Violent Kind"​Tales From Terror Town @ Mezzanine Horror is all too often dissed as a low-rent genre, but talented directors from Roman Polanski to Francis Ford Coppola to Sam Raimi have entered the film biz through that dark door. This particularly ambitious threesome escaped ... More >>

Horror Business

Set photo from "The Violent Kind"​Tales From Terror Town @ Mezzanine Horror is all too often dissed as a low-rent genre, but talented directors from Roman Polanski to Francis Ford Coppola to Sam Raimi have entered the film biz through that dark door. This particularly ambitious threesome escaped ... More >>

Just in time for Halloween, small-screen thrills

Set photo from "The Violent Kind"​Tales From Terror Town @ Mezzanine Horror is all too often dissed as a low-rent genre, but talented directors from Roman Polanski to Francis Ford Coppola to Sam Raimi have entered the film biz through that dark door. This particularly ambitious threesome escaped ... More >>

Drag Me To Hell

Set photo from "The Violent Kind"​Tales From Terror Town @ Mezzanine Horror is all too often dissed as a low-rent genre, but talented directors from Roman Polanski to Francis Ford Coppola to Sam Raimi have entered the film biz through that dark door. This particularly ambitious threesome escaped ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for September 2-8, 2009

Set photo from "The Violent Kind"​Tales From Terror Town @ Mezzanine Horror is all too often dissed as a low-rent genre, but talented directors from Roman Polanski to Francis Ford Coppola to Sam Raimi have entered the film biz through that dark door. This particularly ambitious threesome escaped ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for July 15-21, 2009

Set photo from "The Violent Kind"​Tales From Terror Town @ Mezzanine Horror is all too often dissed as a low-rent genre, but talented directors from Roman Polanski to Francis Ford Coppola to Sam Raimi have entered the film biz through that dark door. This particularly ambitious threesome escaped ... More >>

Heaven can wait: Drag Me to Hell is much more fun.

Set photo from "The Violent Kind"​Tales From Terror Town @ Mezzanine Horror is all too often dissed as a low-rent genre, but talented directors from Roman Polanski to Francis Ford Coppola to Sam Raimi have entered the film biz through that dark door. This particularly ambitious threesome escaped ... More >>

Playing with Himself

Bruce Campbell on cult stardom and being his own director.

Repertory Film Listing

Bruce Campbell on cult stardom and being his own director.

Elvis Is Everywhere

Bruce Campbell on cult stardom and being his own director.

Good Clean Smut

Bruce Campbell on cult stardom and being his own director.

Good Clean Smut

Bruce Campbell on cult stardom and being his own director.

Spider Bites

Overstuffed plot, empty action ruins Spidey's run

Message Bored

Hollywood ho-hum horror keeps ripping off the best, turning out the worst

Repertory Film Listings

Hollywood ho-hum horror keeps ripping off the best, turning out the worst

Repertory Film Listings

Hollywood ho-hum horror keeps ripping off the best, turning out the worst

Reps Etc.

Hollywood ho-hum horror keeps ripping off the best, turning out the worst

G'Dead, Mate

Zombies rise again, this time from Down Under

Bat Cave-In

The Dark Knight's origin story can't overcome its Baleful side

Reps Etc.

The Dark Knight's origin story can't overcome its Baleful side

Mad About It

Costner and Allen are the upside to The Upside of Anger

Attack of the Clones

The ghosts of Takashi Shimizu's Ju-On series return -- again -- in The Grudge

Dead Good

Shaun of the Dead revives the zombie comedy with a U.K. twist

The Phantom Menace

The ghosts of Ju-On: The Grudge are here to annoy you

Run, Do Not Crawl

Spider-Man swings in this touching, thrilling, superior sequel

Summer Film Previews

Spider-Man swings in this touching, thrilling, superior sequel

Reps Etc.

Spider-Man swings in this touching, thrilling, superior sequel

Reps Etc.

Spider-Man swings in this touching, thrilling, superior sequel

Reps Etc.

Spider-Man swings in this touching, thrilling, superior sequel

Reps Etc.

Commentary by Gregg Rickman

Reps Etc.

Commentary by Gregg Rickman

Halloween

Commentary by Gregg Rickman

Scare Tactics

Where and when to have a hopping Halloween

Reps Etc.

Where and when to have a hopping Halloween

Just Say "Super-Size It!"

Summer 2002 sees the little guys getting up to a lot of big things

Flame On

Out of financial and creative bankruptcy, Marvel Comics is mighty once more

Feel His Pain

Billy Bob has a simple plan: to sing about life and lovin' his wife

Chin Up

Bruce Campbell knows why bad movies happen to great actors

Win, Lose, or Draw

Or: How do you bring a comic book to life without killing a superhero?

Private Defective

Emily Watson stars in Trixie

Eight Isn't Enough

Michael Sragow finds eight good films, and countless condescending duds, in a year at the movies

Money Changes Everything

Michael Sragow finds eight good films, and countless condescending duds, in a year at the movies

Second Time Around

Michael Sragow finds eight good films, and countless condescending duds, in a year at the movies

One-Shot Wonder

Michael Sragow finds eight good films, and countless condescending duds, in a year at the movies