Nine years ago, I traversed the World’s Longest Yard Sale to figure out what VHS tapes were worth. Last month, at […]
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Bill Pullman has stolen two forgotten comedies about perfect crimes and imperfect criminals with strangely similar supporting roles that remind just how much we’ve always taken him for granted.
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Beneath the pitch-black comedy that audiences rejected it for, Lawrence Kasdan’s 1990 farce is a heartwarming, true story about how love is stronger than bullets, car bombs, and attempted murder convictions.
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Quit playing “Reindeer Games” – John Frankenheimer’s ultimate Christmas movie is this down-and-dirty holiday hangover where the only white stuff falling is Neo-Nazi scum.
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Classier, costlier Stephen King adaptations may have followed, but this 1990 quickie has aged into a testament to his begrudging talent for horror at its most shamelessly grotesque.
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Years before Patrick Bateman cornered the market on homicide in the American boardroom, Michael Caine crossed the pond to show him how it’s done in this giddy black comedy.
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Before producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson handed the James Bond reins to Amazon, only one mission was completed outside the family, and now ‘Never Say Never Again’ plays like prophecy.
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Stop me faster than a speeding bullet if you’ve heard this one. New York City’s costumed savior has fallen. The captive […]
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Four months before ‘Black Christmas’ invented the modern slasher, director Bob Clark dragged a much older kind of horror story through the foxholes of Vietnam to even more disturbing effect.
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Steve Spielberg’s debut theatrical feature, released 50 years ago this week, isn’t exactly a Rosetta Stone. But it hints at themes and ideas that would preoccupy his subsequent work.
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Overqualified and underrated as ever, “Running Scared” remains an essential, entertaining text about escaping the January doldrums for a little sweet freedom.
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Forty years on, “Easy Money” remains Rodney Dangerfield’s least celebrated and most honest slobs-versus-snobs comedy because, for once, the slobs lose.
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