The 1977 film and its 2015 remake both tell a story that’s part urban legend, part Grimm’s fairy tale, and part morality play.
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The summer of 2022 gave us multiple films that harken back to the glory days of the blockbuster, proving that a simple premise well executed can go far.
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Wes Craven’s breakthrough film turns 50 this month, and it’s lost none of its considerable ability to shock.
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When three great ’50s sci-fi flicks were remade in the 1980s, their social and political subtext had shifted – in fascinating directions.
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Hollywood keeps getting the video game adaptation wrong. So how did the ‘Resident Evil’ movies get it right?
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A re-examination of two sci-fi films (released 30 and 40 years ago), and how they may have predicted our Extremely Online present.
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“Uncharted” lands in theaters this week, so let’s take a look at the sketchy history of video game adaptations – and why the interplay between these two media make them so hard to pull off.
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In a year of drama and trauma, we were more drawn than ever to nostalgia. But the pull of the past was rarely a simple proposition.
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With Pablo Larraín’s “Spencer” in theaters, we look back at an earlier, much stranger cinematic portrait of the Princess of Wales.
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These early ‘80s meditations on mass media have proven eerily prescient of our contemporary concerns – and Extremely Online culture.
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At the dawn of a new decade, quintessential ‘80s screen and TV star Michael J. Fox found two film projects to reposition and reconfigure his persona.
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The references and homages in ‘Rocky Horror’ are numerous, but one film in particular lines up with the cult classic in themes, narrative, and approach.
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