In 2004, I was committed to a mental hospital in Cherry Hill, N.J., in the middle of the night. I couldn’t […]
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If you’ve ever read anything about silent film, you’ve likely seen the image of an impossibly pale, kohl-eyed Theda Bara wearing […]
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What does it mean to be a black man in America? If we believe the media, it means you’re a target […]
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It takes a special talent to direct the weirdest Nightmare on Elm Street, a franchise that eventually stepped outside of itself […]
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E.2.: The Extra-2rrestrial Thirty-five years after having his childhood disrupted and his worldview shattered by the arrival of an alien being, […]
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Star Wars creator George Lucas often talks about his motivations for creating the iconic franchise. He wanted to recreate the fun […]
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Two genre masterpieces were released on the same day in the summer of 1982, both exploring a world in which hard-boiled […]
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This weekend will see a lot of people saying aloud or to themselves, “They remade Flatliners?” That same question will resurface […]
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While David Cronenberg has been synonymous with “body horror” for most of his career, it has been close to two decades […]
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“It seems like everybody loves Harry Dean!” So said David Lynch last October, as he presented the Vidiots Foundation’s inaugural Harry […]
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You may not have noticed that there’s been very little buzz online about the 20th anniversary of Spaceman. That’s because you […]
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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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