Many of the greatest movie stars had not one, but two film debuts. First, there were the debut roles; the films that placed the phrase “and introducing” in front of their names in the opening credits. […]
We love Warner Archive Instant and so should you! This week it’s a tale of two Martys. Martin Scorsese is one of our favorite of the “movie brats,” and Warner Archive Instant has a pair […]
Encolpius (Martin Potter) looks towards the audience and begins Fellini Satyricon by rambling about the man who betrayed and stole a boy from him. It is, as with Woody Allen in Annie Hall, Rosie Perez in Do the […]
You can’t fault Dementia 13 for its ambition: a gothic, slow-burn horror film thick on atmosphere and dread. You can, however, fault director Francis Ford Coppola and producer Roger Corman for everything else: stilted dialogue, […]
God bless public television. The public funded, by-the-bootstraps programming of the ’80s and ’90s, produced a seemingly endless wonderland of high-caliber, star-studded productions that, oh-so-cleverly, had education, not mere entertainments, at its core. From that […]
By the late 1990s, director Oliver Stone had lost his way. This devolution was a long time coming. Many could argue it was his over the top foray into Tarantino land, 1995’s Natural Born Killers, […]
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