On this Sundance eve, let’s travel back 30 years to find out what Miramax and their competitors were up to in Park City.
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John Carpenter and Dan O’Bannon’s debut feature hit theaters 50 years ago this week, but it took a while for the heady sci-fi comedy to take off.
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On the 20th anniversary of its release, the remake of John Carpenter’s classic offers the opportunity to examine the durability of an oft-told tale.
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“When one townie falls in the forest, can anyone hear it?” — The Hold Steady, “One for the Cutters” Arriving near […]
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The holidays may be over, but Ernst Lubitsch’s Christmas favorite is still ideal cold-weather comfort viewing for its 85th anniversary.
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Dunst’s characters in the two films maybe be polar opposites, but to champion one without the other falls prey to the social norms in which they—and we—exist.
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“It’s Xavier,” he mumbles. “With an X or an S?” comes the reply, and an early hint at the kind of […]
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A new year is supposed to bring with it a clean slate but Ben Wheatley’s pitch-black family comedy reveals the lie behind that promise.
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Ahead of Robert Eggers’s much-hyped update on Nosferatu, a look back at the underrated meta horror film from 2000.
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The 1984 cult favorite imparts a pragmatic but ultimately hopeful message for other misfits toughing out the holiday season.
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A more-personal-than-usual reflection on the holiday perennial, now streaming on Amazon Prime.
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Five decades have done little to diminish the confrontational power of Lina Wertmüller’s 1974 classic of sexual politics. In fact, they might have intensified it.
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