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<i>Fletch</i> Endures, 35 Years and 11 Novels Later
Jeremy Herbert
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Fletch Endures, 35 Years and 11 Novels Later

May 29th, 2020
Early on in Fletch Won, the eighth published novel in the series by Gregory McDonald and the first chronologically, Irwin Maurice Fletcher is...
The Proto-‘Matrix’ ‘Johnny Mnemonic’ Never Tries To Be Anything But Itself
Roxana Hadadi
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The Proto-‘Matrix’ ‘Johnny Mnemonic’ Never Tries To Be Anything But Itself

May 26th, 2020
The 1990s were a strange time for filmmakers attempting to understand the Internet. As the technology went mainstream, with more families securing...
All Steadicam and No Play: Movement in <i>The Shining</i>
Anya Stanley
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All Steadicam and No Play: Movement in The Shining

May 22nd, 2020
In 1998, Stanley Kubrick accepted the D.W. Griffith Award from the Director’s Guild of America. In his acceptance speech, he compared Griffith to...
How <i>Rambo</i> Turned a Complicated Antihero into Agitprop
Jason Bailey
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How Rambo Turned a Complicated Antihero into Agitprop

May 22nd, 2020
When Grand Central Publishing released a new edition of the novel First Blood in 2000, author David Morrell penned an introduction, attempting to...
Twenty Years Later, the Modernizations of Michael Almereyda’s <i>Hamlet</i> Provide a Peculiar Nostalgia
Roxana Hadadi
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Twenty Years Later, the Modernizations of Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet Provide a Peculiar Nostalgia

May 12th, 2020
The Shakespeare adaptations of the 1990s and early 2000s are unified by an excess of style, and by a series of big risks. The nightmarish bleakness...
<i>Crimson Tide</i> at Twenty-Five: A Muscular Action Masterpiece for Bleeding Hearts
Zach Vasquez
Looking Back

Crimson Tide at Twenty-Five: A Muscular Action Masterpiece for Bleeding Hearts

May 11th, 2020
Several years ago, while parsing out my love for the films of the late, lamented Tony Scott, I came to a realization: I am a Crimson Tide guy,...
“The Imprisonment of Being a Girl”: On the Emotive Legacy of Sofia Coppola’s <i>The Virgin Suicides</i>
Roxana Hadadi
Looking Back

“The Imprisonment of Being a Girl”: On the Emotive Legacy of Sofia Coppola’s The Virgin Suicides

Apr 21st, 2020
Sofia Coppola’s career is nearly universally concerned with the unspoken loneliness of womanhood, and her directorial debut, The Virgin Suicides,...
<i>American Psycho</i> at 20 and the Idolization of Patrick Bateman
Audrey Fox
Looking Back

American Psycho at 20 and the Idolization of Patrick Bateman

Apr 14th, 2020
When Mary Harron’s American Psycho hit theaters twenty years ago, it sent shockwaves through mainstream cinema. It was daring, intelligent, and...
<i>Nuns on the Run</i> and the End of HandMade Films
Craig J. Clark
Looking Back

Nuns on the Run and the End of HandMade Films

Mar 30th, 2020
HandMade Films was formed by George Harrison and his business manager, Denis O’Brien, for the express purpose of bankrolling Monty Python’s Life...
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