War movies tend to fall into two camps. There are the ones like 1917, Dunkirk, or Saving Private Ryan that focus […]
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The Nightmare on Elm Street franchise is about Freddy Krueger. With his burn scars, his tattered red and green sweater, his […]
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With theatrical releases hitting major obstacles, this summer has brought some truly incredible movies to digital/streaming/VOD. Sadly, The Sunlit Night is […]
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On May 8, 1970, the AFL-CIO mobilized some two hundred New York City construction workers and sicc’ed them on about a […]
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The 1980s, packed full of kid-driven adventure films, has just as many beautiful disasters as it does universally beloved hits. But […]
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This month’s fringe VOD offerings include an alien invasion, a haunted mansion, and a psychic dominatrix, but none of that quite […]
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The Old Guard wants to be the first entry in a franchise very, very badly. Based on the first entry, directed […]
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“Don’t forget it,” a scrawled note vainly implores its own writer in Relic, a gutting Australian horror movie about dementia and […]
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They say Twitter can’t really change your mind about anything, and maybe that’s true. But it can certainly solidify your thinking, […]
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Truffaut’s famous dictum regarding the impossibility of ever making a truly anti-war film is, usually, equally applicable to movies about cops. […]
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It is fascinating now, in 2020, when Jamie Babbit’s But I’m a Cheerleader is a celebrated cult classic of queer cinema—recognized […]
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The first two minutes of Robert Hiltzik’s 1983 feature film crawl forward from the lake setting with overwhelming Manfredini-esque horns and […]
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