Before Keanu wreaked havoc on a mysterious, arcane underworld in the John Wick franchise, Wesley Snipes boldly walked a similar path as vampire hunter Blade.
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1930s screen goddess Kay Francis (whose films are now streaming on the Criterion Channel) embodied the Pre-Code era’s spirit of “sheer elegance and pure sex.”
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In honor of its seventieth anniversary, we look back at a ‘don’t-make-them-like-they-used-to’ romance that probably couldn’t be made today at all.
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From ‘The Exorcist’ to ‘The Omen’ to the drive-in schlock that rode their coattails, ’70s audiences (and filmmakers) couldn’t get enough of Old Scratch.
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Peter Weir’s survivor drama was too much for audiences in 1993, but it stands as one of his (and Jeff Bridges’s) towering achievements.
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Alain Resnais’ 1959 drama, now streaming on the Criterion Channel, asks again-timely questions about dramatizing tragic events.
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Forty years on, “Easy Money” remains Rodney Dangerfield’s least celebrated and most honest slobs-versus-snobs comedy because, for once, the slobs lose.
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After a strong run of ensemble and co-lead turns, Angela Bassett finally got the chance to shine as a true lead, delivering a well-rounded, self-empowering performance that viewers have rarely seen in the subsequent quarter-century.
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Charles Laughton was not the first film actor to play a real-life character on screen – far from it. But his performance influenced the trajectory of the biopic genre, demonstrating the full potential of actors to redefine historical figures in the public imagination.
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The story of this 1979 Kennedy assassination satire is as crazy as its plot. Ahead of a new restoration and re-release, a look back at this hidden gem.
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In the early days of hip hop, the nascent genre had a visual counterpart in graffiti culture. Just as the spare […]
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In anticipation of “The Last Voyage of the Demeter,” we look at another film where a vampire books passage, this time through space (and in the buff).
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