The New Cult Canon

  • Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans

    The New Cult Canon Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans

    Werner Herzog didn't much want to remake Abel Ferrera's dark police procedural. His interests—and Nicolas Cage's—lay elsewhere. Way elsewhere.

    April 15, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Hard Boiled

    The New Cult Canon Hard Boiled

    Has the master of modern action been overshadowed by his pupils?

    April 1, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Glengarry Glen Ross

    The New Cult Canon Glengarry Glen Ross

    The importance of signing on the line which is dotted.

    March 18, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Serenity

    The New Cult Canon Serenity

    A Joss Whedon TV series gets a theatrical afterlife.

    March 4, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • The House Of The Devil

    The New Cult Canon The House Of The Devil

    The greatest ’80s horror movie the ’80s never produced.

    February 25, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Synecdoche, New York

    The New Cult Canon Synecdoche, New York 

    The story of one becomes the story of many.

    February 18, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • The Fall

    The New Cult Canon The Fall

    Was Tarsem’s long-in-the-works globe-spanning epic an act of genius or folly? Why not both?

    February 11, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Let The Right One In

    The New Cult Canon Let The Right One In

    A film about friendships and bloodletting.

    February 4, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Man Bites Dog

    The New Cult Canon Man Bites Dog

    Which came first: the killer or the camera?

    January 28, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Requiem For A Dream

    The New Cult Canon Requiem For A Dream

    Need... score... repeat. 

    January 21, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Zero Effect

    The New Cult Canon Zero Effect

    Sherlock Holmes has nothing on this smart modern reinvention.

    January 14, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Bottle Rocket

    The New Cult Canon Bottle Rocket

    Wes Anderson's debut follows some easily distracted men on a mission.

    January 7, 2010 | 12:00am -

  • Bad Santa

    The New Cult Canon Bad Santa

    He doesn't want to wish you a Merry Christmas.

    December 17, 2009 | 12:14pm -

  • Army Of Darkness

    The New Cult Canon Army Of Darkness

    Some movies have rich subtexts. Others have heroes with chainsaws for arms.

    November 19, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • In The Company Of Men

    The New Cult Canon In The Company Of Men

    Neil LaBute's debut still maintains its power to shock.

    November 12, 2009 | 12:00pm -

  • Hedwig And The Angry Inch

    The New Cult Canon Hedwig And The Angry Inch

    Looking for the origin of love in a cheap seafood restaurant.

    November 5, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Ginger Snaps

    The New Cult Canon Ginger Snaps

    Sometimes "the curse" really is a curse.

    October 29, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Army Of Shadows

    The New Cult Canon Army Of Shadows

    Suppressed in the ’60s, this World War II classic has recently found itself a cult.

    October 22, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The Stepfather

    The New Cult Canon The Stepfather

    Before he was Locke on Lost, he was a psycho stepdad who murdered his way across the country in a personification of the Reagan Revolution.

    October 15, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher trilogy

    The New Cult Canon Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher trilogy

    A trilogy explores a dirty business from several angles.

    October 8, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Head-On

    The New Cult Canon Head-On

    Crazy in love (and out and then back in again).

    October 1, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Napoleon Dynamite

    The New Cult Canon Napoleon Dynamite

    The squeaky clean freak show that conquered the world.

    September 24, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Slacker

    The New Cult Canon Slacker

    Withdrawing in disgust: Same as apathy?

    September 3, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The Lovers On The Bridge

    The New Cult Canon The Lovers On The Bridge

    A love story. With fireworks.

    August 27, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The New Cult Canon Stuck

    The director of Re-Animator takes on a horror from real-life.

    August 20, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Dead Ringers

    The New Cult Canon Dead Ringers

    David Cronenberg and Jeremy Irons create a pair of twins, separate and inequal.

    August 13, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Naked

    The New Cult Canon The New Cult Canon: Naked

    Mike Leigh pays tribute to the human spirit in the ugliest way possible.

    August 6, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • It’s showtime!

    The New Cult Canon Beetlejuice

    Remember when Michael Keaton was an up-and-coming wild man?

    July 30, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Pootie Tang

    The New Cult Canon Pootie Tang

    Critics and mainstream audiences hated this blaxploitation sendup, but they may have missed the humor in its specificity, absurdism, and daring.

    July 23, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Lost Highway

    The New Cult Canon Lost Highway

    Revisiting the dark turns of an oft-overlooked David Lynch movie.

    July 9, 2009 | 12:00am -