Tyler Foster

Much like writer/director Shane Black's previous detective movie, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, which teamed a fresh-out-of-rehab Robert Downey Jr. with Val Kilmer (RIP), The Nice Guys is a witty, funny, and twisty crime thriller set on the fringes of the Los Angeles film industry. Tragically, like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, it was another box office disappointment, much to the chagrin of, well, pretty much anyone who saw the movie in theaters. Thankfully, with Warner Bros. finally opening their catalog to...

Ah, Alex Proyas. Similar to, say, director Brad Silberling, or the Wachowski sisters' work outside of The Matrix, Proyas has left behind a string of visually dazzling cult films but has never quite managed to become a name, despite his ability to put remarkable images on the screen. First there was The Crow, a comic book movie that feels like the next evolutionary step following Tim Burton's Batman, but which was marked by unimaginable tragedy. More recently, Proyas made the wild and...

As someone who arrived at their love of films through cult movies (namely, Entertainment Weekly's list of the top 50 Cult Movies of All Time), one gets used to the idea that many very good films are simply overlooked for one reason or another. Take the Wachowski sisters' Speed Racer adaptation, which was doing something visually ambitious and surprisingly cutting, politically, or the cult detective movie Zero Effect, which features a pre-Something About Mary Ben Stiller and Bill Pullman in a...