In 1991, Susan Faludi published her landmark text, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, which argued that the 1980s saw […]
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Earlier this year, critics and fanboys the world over hailed James Mangold’s Logan as one of the great comic book films. […]
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“Anything in particular you lookin’ for?” The old woman in the lawn chair asked with more exasperation than curiosity. I stood […]
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Twin Peaks: The Return managed to both exceed and confound its viewers’ expectations. This feat is doubly impressive considering how little […]
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This month marks the 30th anniversary of John Sayles’s Matewan, an American classic that fell through the cracks upon release and […]
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“No pointy hats, but plenty of pointy heads.” That’s how the jaded FBI man played by Gene Hackman sums up the […]
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The three most popular professions in cinema, based on the frequency with which they appear in movies, are writers, hitmen, and […]
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In 1957, European immigrant Frederick Kohner published the novel Gidget, The Little Girl with Big Ideas, about a girl who aspires […]
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When it was announced that Quentin Tarantino’s next film would involve the Manson Family murders, the news was met with excitement, […]
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Boy, that stunt/elaborate suicide attempt in the latest Tom Cruise blockbuster looks like a time and a half. I didn’t name […]
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When HBO announced its greenlighting of Confederate, a new series from the show-runners of Game of Thrones, the news was met […]
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“Hooray for Hollywood” will never sound right to me without the tin-can hiss of a VHS tape many times rewound. Growing […]
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