Everyone responds to trauma differently. For some, joking about terrible events is the only way to cope, even if those jokes […]
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Of all Shakespeare’s plays, Titus Andronicus is undoubtedly the most brutal, and possibly the most overlooked. Its bloodshed is constant: filicide, […]
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“I’m not a field agent,” he insists. “I just read books.” And while that might be true, he’s going to have […]
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Of all the strange things to be found throughout the films of David Lynch, one of the most startling comes at […]
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Invisible Life is both an appropriate movie to watch right now and the kind of thing that could make the quarantine […]
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“Jo, captivated, watches type being set,” observes Greta Gerwig of her protagonist in the final pages of her screenplay for Little […]
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In his biblical tome Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents, author Stephen Thrower likens exploitation films to “the […]
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Political documentaries are always tough to critique from a purely cinema-based standpoint, if only because the format is usually superseded by […]
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Slipperiness is the only constant in Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska’s English-language debut, which ably straddles the border between drama and horror. […]
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I selected Hud as the inaugural entry for “Classics Corner,” a new weekly feature spotlighting a pre-1980 film newly available on […]
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Right now, inspiring stories feel like a vitamin supplement. To get through these uncertain times, we’re going to need to hear […]
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HandMade Films was formed by George Harrison and his business manager, Denis O’Brien, for the express purpose of bankrolling Monty Python’s […]
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