Pink Narcissus knows the seductive appeal of locking oneself at home to explore one’s fantasy life. It also sees the dangers of doing so. James Bidgood directed it slowly over a seven-year period from 1963 to 1970. During this time, hardcore porn was legalized and the first stirrings of the gay liberation movement began. Both […]
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Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s war movie is a visceral, violent experience.
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With four Beatles biopics on the way and yet another John & Yoko documentary in theaters, a diehard Fab Four fan has finally had enough.
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Our mini-reviews of “Play Dirty,” “Zero,” “Call of the Void,” and more of this week’s on-demand treasures and trash.
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Though the small-scale film didn’t hit big initially, “A Goofy Movie” boasted an earworm of a closing song that helped it become a cult favorite for Millennials.
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Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune’s final epic collaboration was released 60 years ago. It marked the end of a brilliant, 17-year run.
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Paul Walter Hauser is the most winning part of this thriller about a real-life game show scandal.
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The great French director, a key name in the New Wave, is the subject of a new collection on the Criterion Channel.
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Welcome to Harvey’s Hellhole, a monthly column devoted to spotlighting the movies that were poorly marketed, mishandled, reshaped, neglected or just straight-up destroyed by Harvey Weinstein during his reign as one of the most powerful studio chiefs in Hollywood. Since we dealt with the great “Spring of Sin” of 1995 last month, let’s go back […]
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Thirty years ago, Chris Farley left ‘Saturday Night Live’ and starred in ‘Tommy Boy,’ a comedy classic that shows both great silliness and skill as an actor.
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Jack Black had done smaller work as well as co-headlined Tenacious D beforehand, but his scene-stealing supporting role in the Stephen Frears comedy made him a star.
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Take our advice: Howard Hawks’s 1941 screwball comedy is the only live-action “Snow White” that’s worth your time.
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