Nicolas Roeg’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s novel (released 30 years ago today) still plays like gangbusters, thought its subtext serves as a subtle reminder of the “stranger danger” era.
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Pump Up the Volume never capitulates. In its opening scene, a law-breaking teenage radio DJ who goes by the moniker Hard […]
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The duality that defines Agnés Varda’s Cléo from 5 to 7 is present from, quite literally, its opening frames: a title […]
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The gloomier the world gets, the more lugubrious the art reflecting it becomes. The world has never witnessed a calamity of […]
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Death be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe,For, those, whom thou think’st, thou […]
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“If everybody want to stick together, I stick with ‘em. But if nobody want to stick together, I stick alone, by […]
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It’s one of the most striking openings in cinema history: A burly, shirtless man in a black hood stokes a brazier, […]
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You probably are not giving much thought to either The Expendables, an Avengers-style roundup of action stars with AARP cards, or […]
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“That twinkle in your eye,” Clark Gable marvels at Carole Lombard in No Man of Her Own. “Wrap it up for […]
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Few films aimed at children have made the case for the value of every life as clearly as Babe did in […]
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Few artists can plan a career for themselves, especially in the uncertain world of filmmaking. Most work has to be taken […]
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Like The Stepford Wives, I’d avoided the original Rollerball due to a flaw over which it had no responsibility: spawning an […]
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