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Costner's dedication to the fading genre may prove to be his very own white whale. -
Cult CornerHow 'The Stunt Man' and 'Hooper' Set The Standard For 'The Fall Guy' (The TV Show And The Movie)
The Stunt Man, in particular, earned three Oscar nominations. -
She was an artist, but she was also an extremely loving and devoted mother. -
He was no Jim Brown. -
Queue And AJames Gray's Films Continually Wrestle With His "Fraught and Complicated" Relationship To The Myth Of His Hometown, New York City
The Criterion Channel is currently featuring a retrospective of Gray's work entitled "James Gray's New York." -
The ProblematicsThe Problematics: 'Frankenhooker,' The Ultra Rude Body Horror Movie To Which 'Lisa Frankenstein' Owes A Debt Of Gratitude
Frankenhooker revels in the filth of old New York, long before Disney came to Times Square. -
Napleon's ego is writing checks his body can't cash. -
Killers is the sixth feature film Martin Scorsese’s made with charismatic megastar Leonardo DiCaprio, who himself still has yet to turn fifty. -
Take Two'Staying Alive' Probably Deserves Its 0% Rotten Tomatoes Rating — But It's Also An Endlessly Fascinating Glimpse Into Sly Stallone's Worldview
Staying Alive is special because the sequel to Saturday Night Fever is, in a sense, the ne plus ultra of auteurist films. -
The ProblematicsThe Problematics: 'National Lampoon's Vacation' Turns 40, The Same Middle Age Of Its Protagonist Clark Griswold
John Hughes really believed in pot as a great leveler of disparate communities, that much is certain. -
Like Deep Throat, Debbie proved to have franchise power. -
We shall not experience the likes of Hurricane Billy again. -
The ProblematicsThe Problematics: 'Risky Business' At 40, a Movie Where Hookers, Teenage Boys, And Capitalism Collide
“Sometimes you gotta say what the f***.” -
To see suffering on the Hiroshima scale meticulously recreated through performance and special effects — would this help us, decades on, to resolve any of these contradictions? -
The ProblematicsThe Problematics: 'A Fish Called Wanda,' A Movie In Which A Sociopath With A Speech Impediment Murders Small Puppies
A comedic classic or an ableist nightmare? -
He was the ultimate team player, while simultaneously remaining an irreplaceably singular presence. -
No one's talking. -
Cult CornerLook Back At Anger: Underground Movie Magician Kenneth Anger Did Not Live Forever, After All
The author of the infamous tell-all Hollywood Babylon never made a full-length feature film, but his work was incredibly influential on filmmakers who got closer to the mainstream than he... -
"How do you end racism in the midst of a place that is so morally collapsed? How do you end poverty in a place so spiritually poor?" -
The ProblematicsThe Problematics: 'The Blue Lagoon', An Off-Putting Fairy Tale About The Joys Of Cousins Copulating
The depictions of sex are mostly “artful nudes” with a schmear of American smarminess.
