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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 […]

This month’s look at the cinematic misdeeds of the Weinsteins takes it back thirty years, when a certain pulpy flick set off a wave of crazy/sexy/cool crime stories.

Twenty years ago, before the Weinstein brothers left Miramax to start the Weinstein Company, they released a shoulda-been prestige project that barely made a ripple.

Thirty years after its controversial release, a look back at Larry Clark’s notorious portrait of youth gone to seed in mid-’90s Manhattan.

A look back at Miramax and Dimension’s various re-cuttings and re-packagings of the works of the legendary martial artist and screen comedian.

In spring of 1995, with the releases of “Exotica,” “Muriel’s Wedding,” and “Priest,” Miramax was ready to test the limits of censors and audiences.

Even the Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami fell victim to the indifference of Miramax with this 1994 meta-drama.

Welcome to Harvey’s Hellhole, a monthly column devoted to spotlighting the movies that were poorly marketed, mishandled, reshaped, neglected or just […]

This month marks Oscar Wilde’s 170th birthday (and next month marks the 124th anniversary of his death) so let’s go back to that brief time when Miramax was in the Oscar Wilde-adapting business. 

The 30th anniversary of Quentin Tarantino’s revolutionary ‘Pulp Fiction’ is fast approaching, but let’s give special attention to a less-than revolutionary movie that came out twenty years ago — on home video! — that QT slapped his name on.

The recently-departed actress’s four films for Miramax in the mid-to-late 1990s weren’t among her crowning achievements, but they also showed that she never phoned it in.