When three great ’50s sci-fi flicks were remade in the 1980s, their social and political subtext had shifted – in fascinating directions.
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Our mini-reviews of “Murder at Yellowstone City,” “Guidance,” “Granada Nights,” and more.
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If you were to ask a casual horror fan to name the first image that pops into their head when they hear the term ‘cosmic horror’, there’s a better than not chance their answer will be tentacles. We can thank two men for this. The first, and most obvious, is H.P. Lovecraft, the 20th century […]
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A look at this year’s NY-based multimedia fest, including mini-reviews of ‘The Integrity of Joseph Chambers,’ ‘Lynch/Oz,’ and more.
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Vincente Minnelli’s 1945 romance (now streaming on the Criterion Channel) is a delightful proto-‘Before Sunrise’ centered on two marvelous performers.
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Cooper Raiff’s Sundance sensation betrays its creator’s youth, but it’s a charming, likable movie nonetheless.
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Emma Thompson is raw and radiant in the sex-positive crowd-pleaser the movie landscape needs right now.
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The multifaceted actor revived her career in the summer of 1997 with two very different films: “My Best Friend’s Wedding” and “Conspiracy Theory.”
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Since June is Pride Month, our latest look at the Weinstein legacy revisits the time a promising lesbian filmmaker was brought in to Miramax to helm a very bad bro comedy.
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When it came to bringing Robert Ludlum’s novel to the screen, casting the right actor made all the difference.
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Jean-Luc Godard called it his “second first film,” and while his 1980 drama diverged from his ’70s experiments, it was no ‘Breathless’ either.
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Though it hit theaters the same weekend as ‘Star Wars,’ and came in second in the year’s box office race, ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ has cast a much shorter shadow over contemporary culture. Let’s look at why.
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