Brew Views Earlier this year, the George Lucas-produced Red Tails tried (and failed) to tell the inspiring story of the Tuskegee Airmen by resurrecting the corny, flag-waving 1940s war picture—the exact ki   More

Brew Views Essentially the Ramones’ A Hard Day’s Night, 1979’s Rock ’n’ Roll High School takes place in a parallel dimension to our own, a Bizarro World where preppy pretty boys pine after weirdo p   More

Brew Views As if still fueled by all that nose candy at the end of GoodFellas, Scorsese’s desert follow-up Casino is the highest-grade Marty party, with all the tricks of his middle period deployed as ofte   More

Brew Views Acolytes in the Church of Eastwood will tell you that Sudden Impact is not just the Dirty Harry movie that coined “Go ahead, make my day” for Reagan: No, it’s also the one Clint directed, an   More

Brew Views Rod Serling was all about the heavy-handed allocation of ironic fate, so maybe it was inevitable that the Spielbergian bloat of Twilight Zone: The Movie would be punished by being remembered only fo   More

Brew Views The story goes that when Howard Hawks was making The Big Sleep, industry censors said his conclusion was too lenient toward organized crime. So he asked them to write the ending themselves, and th   More

Brew Views The most lucid movie ever made about the links between technology, pornography and that shriveled organ called the conscience, David Cronenberg’s Videodrome is no less traumatizing in the age    More

Brew Views The really incredible thing about Twin Peaks is that two decades after it aired, despite having all its tricks stolen by The X-Files and Lost and its memory desecrated by The Killing, despite Ray Wi   More

Brew Views My Beer and Movie partner, Jacques Boyreau, has programmed Predator as follow-up to The African Queen—with Ahnold as the new Bogie, fighting a faceless jungle. But I suspect most observers have    More

Brew Views Next month’s The Hunger Games surely won’t open with Jennifer Lawrence’s head exploding, what with its Twihard demographic. But Suzanne Collins’ series owes a tremendous debt to Kinji Fu   More