Thu, May 17, 2012

Insomnia: Christopher Nolan’s Unlikely Best Film?

Posted 1 year, 10 months ago

All great artists have their masterpieces: Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes, Coppola’s Godfather, Guns N’ Roses‘s Appetite For Destruction. But all great artists also have their snobbish fans who snub their noses at these populist decisions and see — beg your pardon — true

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Girl Powers! Witchcraft and ’90s Cinema

Posted 1 year, 10 months ago

The Witches of Eastwick and Practical Magic (Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman) Release Date: July 6, 2010

A decade before True Blood and Twilight transformed vampires and werewolves from soulless monsters to brooding, morally ambiguous young men with gelled hair and black muscle shirts,…

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Predator: Kick-Ass ’80s Action Enters the Age of Terror

Posted 1 year, 10 months ago

Predator: Ultimate Hunter Edition
Release Date: June 29, 2010

No decade did movie violence quite like the 1980s. Between the highbrow, aesthetic bloodshed of ’70s auteur cinema (Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather, everything Sam Peckinpah ever touched) and the winking, postmodern…

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