In the quarter-century since its release, it’s become abundantly clear that a particular alchemy was at work when writer/director Stephen Sommers crafted his take on the Universal monster.
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Ahead of a new biopic about Flannery O’Connor, we look back at the sole adaptation of her Southern Gothic classic.
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The recent Kino Lorber Blu-Ray marks the latest in a series of restorations of Nancy Savoca’s work. It’s a good reminder that all movies are miracles, some more than others.
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If the time is right for a ska revival, maybe the electrifying performances in ‘Dance Craze’ will find an enthusiastic new audience.
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For this month’s rundown of the cinematic misdeeds of Harvey Weinstein, we look back at a 1989 historical drama that Miramax worked overtime to turn into a cause célèbre.
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Woody Allen’s 1985 masterwork is uproariously funny – and a thoughtful examination of reality, fantasy, and the blurry space in between.
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During World War II, Jean-Pierre Melville risked his life in the French Resistance. After the war, he took another risk bringing a story from occupied France to the screen.
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Twenty years later, the supernatural rom-com remains an antidote to the godawful films that attempted to capitalize on Jennifer Garner’s action hero appeal.
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Thirty years on, Shu Lea Cheang’s debut feature cum experimental sci-fi political critique comments pitch-perfectly on issues that plague our contemporary world.
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Reese Witherspoon portrays Tracy Flick as something teenage girls in film are so rarely allowed to be: unrepentantly ruthless in their ambition.
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Peter Bogdanovich’s 1981 screwball comedy (now streaming on Max) is a lightweight soufflé of a movie, inadvertently shrouded in tragedy.
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In 1994, both films took a stab at resurrecting a Freddy Krueger-type character. What they ended up doing instead was argue in favor of the horror genre itself.
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