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The Horror Of <i>Blade Runner</i>

The Horror Of Blade Runner

Oct 4th, 2017 Bill Bria
Two genre masterpieces were released on the same day in the summer of 1982, both exploring a world in which hard-boiled blue-collar characters struggle to survive in an oppressive, inhospitable landscape, hunted by beings that only appear to be human. One of these films — John Carpenter’s The...
Math, Or Why Sony Is Smart to Keep Churning Out Horror Remakes

Math, Or Why Sony Is Smart to Keep Churning Out Horror Remakes

Sep 28th, 2017 Rob Hunter
This weekend will see a lot of people saying aloud or to themselves, “They remade Flatliners?” That same question will resurface in a few months when it’s released on home video, and then the film will most likely never be spoken of again. While it should eventually recoup its low $20 million...
Scene of an Anatomy: Viggo Mortensen in <i>Eastern Promises</i>

Scene of an Anatomy: Viggo Mortensen in Eastern Promises

Sep 19th, 2017 Craig J. Clark
While David Cronenberg has been synonymous with “body horror” for most of his career, it has been close to two decades since he made a feature (1999’s eXistenZ) that could be classified as such. (It’s also been that long since he directed one based on his own script.) In that time, his...
Harry Dean Stanton Dissolves into Thin Air

Harry Dean Stanton Dissolves into Thin Air

Sep 18th, 2017 Zach Vasquez
“It seems like everybody loves Harry Dean!” So said David Lynch last October, as he presented the Vidiots Foundation’s inaugural Harry Dean Stanton Award to the man himself. Lynch was one of dozens of luminaries from the film and music world — including Anjelica and Danny Huston, Kris...
<i>Spaceman</i>: The Onion Co-Founder's Cult Classic That Never Was

Spaceman: The Onion Co-Founder's Cult Classic That Never Was

Sep 14th, 2017 Ira Brooker
You may not have noticed that there’s been very little buzz online about the 20th anniversary of Spaceman. That’s because you probably have no idea that Spaceman exists. It’s all right, though. Hardly anyone does. But perhaps they should. A little background for the uninitiated, which in...
<i>Fatal Attraction</i> and the Feminist 'Backlash'

Fatal Attraction and the Feminist 'Backlash'

Sep 13th, 2017 Kristen Lopez
In 1991, Susan Faludi published her landmark text, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, which argued that the 1980s saw the media perpetuate a series of myths and falsehoods in order to scare women against the strides they’d made during the feminist revolution of the 1970s. A...
10 Years Later: How <i>3:10 to Yuma</i> Updated An Elmore Leonard Classic

10 Years Later: How 3:10 to Yuma Updated An Elmore Leonard Classic

Sep 8th, 2017 Michael Smith
Earlier this year, critics and fanboys the world over hailed James Mangold’s Logan as one of the great comic book films. A dark, violent look at a hero’s last days in a world that has forgotten him, Logan does for superhero movies what Unforgiven did for Westerns — it may be the dawn of a new...
The World's Longest Yard Sale and the Value of VHS

The World's Longest Yard Sale and the Value of VHS

Sep 5th, 2017 Jeremy Herbert
“Anything in particular you lookin’ for?” The old woman in the lawn chair asked with more exasperation than curiosity. I stood over a box of plastic clamshell VHS cases, the kind usually reserved for Disney movies, the kind that makes a primally satisfying pop when opened, and lied. ...
David Lynch’s Personal Odyssey in <i>Twin Peaks: The Return</i>

David Lynch’s Personal Odyssey in Twin Peaks: The Return

Sep 4th, 2017 Zach Vasquez
Twin Peaks: The Return managed to both exceed and confound its viewers’ expectations. This feat is doubly impressive considering how little was known about the plot or structure of the show before it aired beyond Showtime CEO David Nevins’ description of it as “an emotional story about...
The War on Coal: John Sayles' <i>Matewan</i> at 30

The War on Coal: John Sayles' Matewan at 30

Aug 28th, 2017 Zach Vasquez
This month marks the 30th anniversary of John Sayles’s Matewan, an American classic that fell through the cracks upon release and remains criminally under-seen to this day. The film details the events leading up to 1920 Battle of Matewan (alternatively known as the Matewan Massacre) in West...
Hollywood's Proud Tradition of Mocking White Supremacists

Hollywood's Proud Tradition of Mocking White Supremacists

Aug 22nd, 2017 Craig J. Clark
“No pointy hats, but plenty of pointy heads.” That’s how the jaded FBI man played by Gene Hackman sums up the Jessup County chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Alan Parker’s Mississippi Burning. Sure enough, the Klansmen in the 1988 film eschew the organization’s traditional robes, although...
11 Underrated Hitman Movies

11 Underrated Hitman Movies

Aug 16th, 2017 Rob Hunter
The three most popular professions in cinema, based on the frequency with which they appear in movies, are writers, hitmen, and gaffers. (It’s true, so you don’t need to bother looking it up.) Hitman films in particular are a staple both in Hollywood and abroad, and this week sees yet another...
<i>Gidget</i>'s Sexual Awakening via Surfing

Gidget's Sexual Awakening via Surfing

Aug 15th, 2017 Kristen Lopez
In 1957, European immigrant Frederick Kohner published the novel Gidget, The Little Girl with Big Ideas, about a girl who aspires to be a surfer. Kohner got the idea after watching his daughter, a budding feminist, declare her desire to engage in a “boys-only sport.” Two years later, Hollywood...
Charles Manson and the Current Fascination with the 1970s Violence and Cinema

Charles Manson and the Current Fascination with the 1970s Violence and Cinema

Aug 15th, 2017 Zach Vasquez
When it was announced that Quentin Tarantino’s next film would involve the Manson Family murders, the news was met with excitement, outrage, trepidation, and — most curiously — surprise.    First of all, you would think that after a quarter-century of following his singular career, people...
Acting Like Heroes: The Unofficial Trilogy of <i>¡Three Amigos!</i>, <i>Galaxy Quest</i>, and <i>Tropic Thunder</i>

Acting Like Heroes: The Unofficial Trilogy of ¡Three Amigos!, Galaxy Quest, and Tropic Thunder

Aug 7th, 2017 Jeremy Herbert
Boy, that stunt/elaborate suicide attempt in the latest Tom Cruise blockbuster looks like a time and a half. I didn’t name which one because I want this article to work until at least 2030, maybe 2040. These days, Tom Cruise hasn’t just become synonymous with actors doing their own stunts,...
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