The New Cult Canon

  • Darkman

    The New Cult Canon Darkman

    So who was Darkman?

    July 2, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • I Heart Huckabees

    The New Cult Canon I Heart Huckabees

    What does Shania Twain have in common with a rock? Only one film dares to ponder the question.

    June 25, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Quick Change

    The New Cult Canon Quick Change

    Bill Murray just wants to rob a bank and go home, okay?

    June 18, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Trust

    The New Cult Canon Trust

    Can love be reduced to an equation?

    June 11, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Code Unknown

    The New Cult Canon Code Unknown

    A master of philosophical violence and philosophy about violence turns the "everything is connected" movie upside-down.

    June 4, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Team America: World Police

    The New Cult Canon Team America: World Police

    Puppet satire! Fuck yeah!

    May 28, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Brick

    The New Cult Canon Brick

    High school goes noir.

    May 21, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The Big Lebowski

    The New Cult Canon The Big Lebowski

    The cult abides.

    May 14, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Careful

    The New Cult Canon Careful

    The obsessive fantasylands of Guy Maddin.

    May 7, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Millennium Actress

    The New Cult Canon Millennium Actress

    A twisty anime feature folds fantasy into reality.

    April 30, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The Triplets Of Belleville

    The New Cult Canon The Triplets Of Belleville

    How can a film so bent on imitation and allusion be so thoroughly original?

    April 23, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Spirited Away

    The New Cult Canon Spirited Away

    The mirror image of Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland strikes an audaciously melancholy tone.

    April 16, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Alice

    The New Cult Canon Alice

    Animation month goes down the rabbit hole.

    April 9, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The Iron Giant

    The New Cult Canon The Iron Giant

    A boy and his robot (and the army that wants to keep them apart.)

    April 2, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The Room

    The New Cult Canon The Room

    The New Cult Canon welcomes the movie that's tearing us apart, Lisa.

    March 26, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The Way Of The Gun

    The New Cult Canon The Way Of The Gun

    Did a flood of Tarantino wannabes bury a gem?

    March 19, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Beau Travail

    The New Cult Canon Beau Travail

    You've never seen a Herman Melville adaptation quite like this one before.

    March 12, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • Femme Fatale

    The New Cult Canon The New Cult Canon: Femme Fatale

    Doubles and double-crosses.

    March 5, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The New Cult Canon The New Cult Canon: Heavenly Creatures

    Crime and fantasy, Peter Jackson style.

    February 26, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The New Cult Canon The New Cult Canon: Eyes Wide Shut

    Those who saw Kubrick's final film as an off-key coda might not have been looking hard enough.

    February 19, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The New Cult Canon The New Cult Canon: The Limey filmmaker commentary track

    Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter Lem Dobbs square off in a movie-length argument about moviemaking.

    February 12, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The New Cult Canon The New Cult Canon: Velvet Goldmine

    Glam rock by way of Citizen Kane.

    February 5, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The New Cult Canon The New Cult Canon: Bitter Moon

    Love and marriage, the Polanski way.

    January 28, 2009 | 6:00pm -

  • Mysterious Skin

    The New Cult Canon Mysterious Skin

    Plenty of films deal with child molestation. How many deal with the fallout like this?

    January 22, 2009 | 12:00am -

  • The New Cult Canon King Of New York

    The city belongs to Walken. (For a little bit.)

    January 15, 2009 | 12:01am -

  • The New Cult Canon Married To The Mob

    Jonathan Demme's mob comedy swims in day-glo tackiness.

    January 7, 2009 | 11:01pm -

  • The New Cult Canon Reservoir Dogs

    Clowns to the left. Jokers to the right.

    December 18, 2008 | 5:59pm -

  • The New Cult Canon The New Cult Canon: Exotica

    Nothing's quite what it first appears here, even the movie itself.

    December 10, 2008 | 11:00pm -

  • The New Cult Canon The New Cult Canon: Fallen Angels

    Welcome to Wong Kar-Wai's Hong Kong, where there's always an internal monologue happening somewhere.

    December 3, 2008 | 11:01pm -

  • The Devil's Rejects

    The New Cult Canon The New Cult Canon: The Devil's Rejects

    Why this Rob Zombie film is one of the best movies ever made about 9/11. (No, seriously.)

    November 25, 2008 | 1:20pm -