Fifty years ago, Hugh Hefner tried to extend his Playboy empire into film production. It did not go quite as planned.
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Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott’s familial drama, released 25 years ago this week, is so much more than a food movie.
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John Boorman’s 1972 backwoods thriller (now streaming on HBO Max) remains a potent and powerful work – a revenge movie with a twist.
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Peter Bogdanovich’s 1972 screwball comedy has its problems, but it also has Babs.
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This month’s look back at the cinematic misdemeanors of Harvey Weinstein collides with his real-life crimes.
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The Alan Arkin-directed Elliott Gould vehicle, now streaming as part of Criterion Channel’s “New York Stories” series, is the comic equivalent of grimy classics like ‘Taxi Driver.”
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Few films have faced as many impediments to success as David Lynch’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi tome — and the cinema gods aren’t done with it yet.
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In six masterful late ‘50s Westerns, director Budd Boetticher and star Randolph Scott brilliantly reimagined the Western and its hero.
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With his new film “The Card Counter” in theaters soon, we look back at one of Paul Schrader’s strangest – and least understood – works.
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A critical examination of the ‘50s Technicolor musical standby – why they did them, and if they still work.
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At the dawn of a new decade, quintessential ‘80s screen and TV star Michael J. Fox found two film projects to reposition and reconfigure his persona.
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Martin Scorsese’s breakthrough feature showcases the style and sensibility (and morality) that would become his trademark.
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