Welcome back to another issue of Your Movie Mage, where I discuss underrated movies across genres. Last week, we covered the underrated, off-beat rom-com, “Dinner in America,” and this week we’ll be ...

Donnie Darko is a midnight movie, but I saw the 15th anniversary 4K restoration at 9:30PM at the Metrograph, a two-theater art house on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. That’s not where you want ...

Over Zoom, I ask the writer and director Richard Kelly if he’s aware of Phoebe Bridgers. The cover art for her groundbreaking album, Punisher, features the musician wearing a Halloween-esque ...

Yet even stripped of its time loop, Donnie Darko would still be an all-time great period-set indie coming-of-age dramedy. It’s Ladybird with a sci-fi element. In hindsight, it’s easy to forget ...

Its poster featured Arabic-style lettering, which Newmarket quickly changed to a more traditional Trajan font common on movie posters. 13. The film cost $4.5 million to make, but earned back just ...

Steven Poster, my cinematographer, came up to me, and he was like, 'Rich, I wasn't sure about the rabbit… but now I get it.'" Read Gyllenhaal's full tribute to Donnie Darko above. Related content: ...

Donnie Darko was a box office flop when it first hit theaters in October 2001 - a film about a jet engine falling from the sky didn’t seem particularly palatable in the wake of Sept. 11 - but in ...

Jake Gyllenhaal and Jena Malone in “Donnie Darko”Newmarket Films. Poster developed a strong bond with Kelly during the pre-production phase on “Darko,” when the first time feature director ...