My brother and I like to bother each other and those around us with a game of soundtracks: When a deep, […]
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This month marks the 10th anniversary of David Mamet’s mixed-martial-arts thriller Redbelt. In the intervening years, Mamet — the preeminent American […]
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As college kids everywhere illegally stream or see Avengers: Infinity War in the theater, they might be looking pretty hard for the puffy guy […]
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In You Were Never Really Here, Lynne Ramsay continues to uphold her reputation for being an artist of uncompromising originality and […]
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Eighteen feature films, more than 40 major characters, 10 years of stories, six Infinity Stones: There’s a lot going on in […]
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When an Israeli pilot refused to take off for another shot out of sheer exhaustion, Menahem Golan threatened him at gunpoint […]
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‘If you think this country’s bad off now, just wait till I get through with it.’ — Rufus T. Firefly, Duck […]
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Editor’s note: After we’d published two of these columns, we discovered that Noel Mellor already has a well-established podcast and book […]
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Animation saved Wes Anderson from self-parody. By the time he released his fifth feature, the exotic Indian travelogue The Darjeeling Limited […]
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With his Best Adapted Screenplay win for Call Me by Your Name, James Ivory received some long-overdue recognition from the Academy. […]
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The arena. The Pongitron. “How’s that for a bad hit, Team Leader?” The Ball Chase. The music of Guns N’ Roses. […]
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As I’ve mentioned in previous articles, the 1980s weren’t a great time to be a female. The end of second-wave feminism […]
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