If Sequestrada were a documentary, it might be a success. Onscreen titles explain the plight of Brazil’s indigenous tribes, who have […]
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Washington Irving’s 1820 short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is a classic of Gothic horror, an atmospheric and ambiguous tale […]
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Holiday movies, especially Christmas movies, tend to be high-concept affairs, featuring guardian angels, kid-made booby traps, or ghosts haunting a miserly […]
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In 1989, the popularity of the Nightmare On Elm Street series and its flagship character, Freddy Krueger, were still going strong. […]
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Perhaps the most notable example of a prominent movie genre that disappeared almost entirely is the Western. Once inescapable — there […]
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Film is a strange medium. It requires creating images and moments that must have the semblance of reality but which are […]
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Crime films deal with criminals in a variety of ways, but there is a temptation (often indulged) to treat the criminal […]
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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is a hit, and it’s clear that the Fast & Furious franchise has no […]
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Human beings have a natural fear of animal attacks, a fear that horror movies have exploited since cinema began. At first […]
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A new film entitled Shaft is being released this month, and thus the Shaft series joins the rare and dubious club […]
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Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg, Biden, O’Rourke, Harris, Yang. Uh … I wanna say Islee? Is that one? The list of Democratic candidates […]
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As is increasingly the case in modern cinema, groups underrepresented onscreen are having their stories told more frequently and more honestly […]
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