John Frankenheimer’s 1966 thriller Seconds is currently streaming on the Criterion Channel as part of their Saul Bass centennial,and his distinctive […]
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The world of creature features has its own rogue’s gallery of beloved destruction generators. There’s Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah, Gamera, the […]
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Bruce Willis, Scott Adkins, and a killer shark make for a direct-to-video all-star line-up in this month’s look at movies on […]
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Nicolas Cage has commanded the screen, for better or worse, for nearly 40 years. The Oscar winner has delivered brilliant, subtle […]
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An artsier version of what might have been a network TV movie in the 1980s, writer-director Joey Klein’s addiction drama Castle […]
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The Harlem-set blaxploitation movies of the 1970s – films like Super Fly, Black Caesar, and Hell Up in Harlem – share […]
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The Shakespeare adaptations of the 1990s and early 2000s are unified by an excess of style, and by a series of […]
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The days may be blending into each other, but the seasons, at least, are starting to show significant change. Spring is […]
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.—Wm. Shakespeare Boogaloo Shrimp and […]
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Proto-indie filmmaker Roger Corman once said, “Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons […]
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How to Build a Girl is … a lot. You have American actress Beanie Feldstein doing a Midlands accent with her […]
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The most interesting thing to come out of expanded streaming during this period of staying home is the access to diverse […]
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