Jordan Hoffman
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'Brats' Director Andrew McCarthy Is Still Coming To Grips With The "F***ing Nightmare" Of The "Brat Pack" Label, Nearly 40 Years Later
By Jordan Hoffman •"All I knew is that I hated it, [my colleagues] all hated it, but now that I’ve come to see it as a blessing, what do they all think?" -
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'Star Trek III' at 40: The Story of How (and Why) Leonard Nimoy Brought Spock Back After Being Killed Off In 'The Wrath of Khan'
By Jordan Hoffman •The Search For Spock finds the pointy-eared Vulcan ... alive! -
'Let It Be' Is Finally Free After Being Locked In The Beatles' Vault For Decades
By Jordan Hoffman • 152 Shares“It is not a dark, miserable affair. It is a quite liberating movie.” -
Netflix's 'Hit Man' Sure Looks Like It's Going To Be A Summer Hit, Man
By Jordan Hoffman •Glen Powell won the crowd over in New York City last night with a story about one of the film's characters they nicknamed "Meth-hew McConaughey." -
Woody Allen in Exile: 'Coup De Chance' Finally Arrives On Streaming, Where No One Will Shame You For Watching
By Jordan Hoffman • 461 SharesIf you aren’t totally skeeved out by watching a Woody Allen movie, you may find that this late work is graced by a stroke of luck. -
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'The Outsiders' at 40: Francis Ford Coppola's Retro Teen Classic Somehow Stayed Gold
By Jordan Hoffman •To borrow a turn of phrase from Bill Simmons, is this the Apex Mountain for burnouts? -
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'Army Of Darkness' at 30: Sam Raimi's Action-Comedy Remains One Of The Grossest Mainstream Multiplex Releases Ever
By Jordan Hoffman •"Gimme some sugar, baby." -
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'The King Of Comedy' At 40: A Terrifying Look At The Early Origins Of "Stan Culture"
By Jordan Hoffman •The King of Comedy is one of the bleakest and most hateful movies about mass communication ever made. -
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Ben Affleck's 'Daredevil', 20 Years Later, Is a Refreshing Change From the MCU
By Jordan Hoffman •Turns out all we needed was two decades and hindsight to appreciate Affleck's original superhero movie. -
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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Mad God' on Shudder, A 30-Years-In-The-Making Nightmare of Sludge, Slime, and Scares
By Jordan Hoffman • 383 SharesDim the lights, get in the zone, and freak out to this strange, grotesque, and inexplicable movie. -
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'Rocky III' at 40: Sly Stallone, Mr. T, and Thunderlips Collide In Reagan's High-Octane '80s
By Jordan Hoffman • 196 Shares"And he watches us all with the eye. The eye of the tiger." -
No wonder David Fincher has disowned it.
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'Chariots Of Fire' Composer Vangelis Was A Groundbreaking Mix Of Mad Scientist And Greek Prophet
By Jordan Hoffman •For some, his laser beam swoops and swirling vector graphic aural oddities represented the soundtrack to life. -
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'Attack Of The Clones' At 20: An Impossibly Dull Story, A Sumptuous Visual Feast ... Or Both?!?
By Jordan Hoffman •If you let AOTC simply wash over you as a sound-and-light show, it is tremendously effective. -
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The New 4K "Director's Edition" of 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' on Paramount+ Boldly Goes Where No Other Cuts Have Gone Before
By Jordan Hoffman • 369 SharesThe crystalline 4K imagery and Dolby Atmos audio are so impressive that even the Star Trek agnostic will be blown away. -
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Richard Linklater Goes Deep On His Soundtrack Choices For 'Apollo 10 1/2' — Including That Donovan Song That Also Appears In 'Licorice Pizza'
By Jordan Hoffman •"I guarantee you I had that slotted in there two years before Paul Thomas Anderson even shot anything!" -
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'The Last Picture Show' at 50: The First, And Last, Movie Of Its Kind
By Jordan Hoffman • 121 SharesThe only reasonable thing to say about Cybill Shepherd in The Last Picture Show is she's the reason God invented cameras. -
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'Waking Life' at 20: Richard Linklater's Psychedelic Exploration Of Perception, Consciousness, and the Fragility of Reality
By Jordan Hoffman •Has there ever been a movie that contains more raw material for discussion? -
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Led Zeppelin's 'The Song Remains The Same' At 45: Big Riffs, Tight Jeans, And Even A Dose Of True Crime
By Jordan Hoffman •This is an absolutely foundational rock 'n roll epic, a window into the world of high fantasy and danger that no other group perfected quite like Led Zep did. -
'Man on a Mission': Richard Garriott Used His Millions To Vacation In Space, Long Before Bezos and Branson
By Jordan Hoffman •Unlike Branson and Bezos, whose time in zero gravity was just a few minutes, Richard Garriott spent 12 days in space.