The OverlookThe OverlookIn The Overlook, A.V. Club film critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky examines the misfits, under-appreciated gems, and underseen classics of film history.

Feral Parrots Are Taking Over America

Why Does Coffee Make Us Poop? Scientists Gave Coffee to Rats to Find Out

The Game of Thrones Finale Got the Important Stuff Right

The late Tobe Hooper blew the nuclear family to pieces in Spontaneous Combustion

It takes a master to make a crime movie without guns

The Last Year At Marienbad of Z-grade bad movies

Almost 60 years ago, an unorthodox film tackled race and racism in the classroom

The director of Bad Lieutenant takes on the prescient cyberpunk of William Gibson

From Fascist Italy came a violent medieval fantasy epic way ahead of its time

75 years later, Orson Welles’ troubled follow-up to Citizen Kane continues to enchant

Sax and violence: The intoxicating alternate reality of Trouble In Mind

Rapture with parrots: The delirious world of Finland’s king of melodrama

Kenji Mizoguchi made masterpieces, but nothing as strange as Miyamoto Musashi

The fogbound mystery that predicted film noir, fascism, and the French New Wave

Anti-Christ in a custom van: The churchy cheap thrills of A Thief In The Night

The Eraserhead baby from space: David Lynch made a weird world in Dune

There was more to Aussie comic Yahoo Serious than just his dumb hair

Overlooked movies of 1996

Oh, Brother: Russia’s beloved and troubling no-budget hit man movie

A legendary Hollywood director scaled the Great Pyramid with a visionary flop

Giving a forgotten Ashton Kutcher vanity project its due

The bold, innovative Canon City deserves to be better known

Iconic cinematographer Christopher Doyle cut loose with a little-seen film