The Beatles premiered their blatantly weird, critically savaged ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ film 55 years ago today on the BBC.

Grandmaster of magic and suspense Christopher Lee said his favorite role was a merry jaunt as Lord SummerIsle in ‘The Wicker Man.’

A number of book, CD, DVD/Blu-ray, and vinyl releases kept Beatles fans busy this year. Kit O’Toole is here to help Santa sort them all out.

David Lynch is really a genre unto himself, immediately conjuring up those unhinged, paranoid, disturbingly beautiful fever-scapes so peculiar to him.

This edition of Reel to Real returns to a pair of challenging, but always intriguing films released in 1999 by directors David Fincher and Milos Forman.

Michael Haneke’s ‘Funny Games’ arrived 25 years ago as an ingenious meditation on hyper-gratuitous violence in mainstream cinema.

Mick Raubenheimer’s Reel to Real continues a Halloween-themed swing into the horror genre with ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’ and ‘Shadow of the Vampire.’

The only reason to return to the visceral hysterics of ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ is that Tobe Hooper’s film transcends into a kind of poetics of evil.

A gorgeously textured spell of a film, the Peter Greenaway-directed ‘Prospero’s Books’ is unmatched for visual audacity and sophisticated narration.

Sergio Leone said he was done with the West. As ‘Once Upon a Time’ showed, however, the West wasn’t done with him.