When Joe Wright made his take on Austen’s classic in 2005, he had to find a way to make this oft-told tale fresh. Here’s how he did it:
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I recently discovered there are two types of people in this world: Kentucky Fried Movie people and Amazon Women in the […]
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On this, its 30th anniversary, it’s as easy as ever to dismiss Kevin Costner’s Oscar-winning Western epic. But it’s not quite that simple.
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Orson Welles’s 1947 thriller is a must-add for your “Noirvember” watchlist – and a rich match of style and substance.
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In ‘Jacob’s Ladder,’ released 30 years ago this week, director Adrian Lyne plumbed the depths of psychological horror and came up with a deeply unnerving portrait of hell on earth
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On the eve of the election, a look back at the 1999 Nixon comedy – and how it predicted the recent demystifying of a journalistic legend.
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The 2000 film adaptation of the ‘70s series hit theaters 20 years ago, offering audiences just the right mix of action and winking self-awareness. A look back:
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George A. Romero’s mis-marketed and misunderstood 1972 film is a fascinating example of a genre filmmaker stretching his legs, applying his visual and tonal acumen to a film less about the occult than women’s liberation.
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How three films – by David Lynch, David Cronenberg, and Andrzej Zulawski – redefined genre cinema, and the films of their children continued those traditions.
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On the 20th anniversary of its release, a look back at the astonishingly visceral, deeply felt performance by the great Ellen Burstyn.
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The Wes Craven / Eddie Murphy team-up, which hit screens 25 years ago this week, doesn’t quite work – but it offers a road map of the direction horror would take in the years to come.
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Released barely a year after the groundbreaking and wildly profitable original, ‘Blair Witch 2’ was immediately reviled, and then quickly forgotten. Was it a quickie cash-in – or merely ahead of its time?
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