Unsurprisingly, in the past few years heroin suppliers have been finding new and innovative ways to kill their clients. From late 2013 and into 2014, there were at least 700 deaths connected to fentanyl-cut heroin. […]
François Truffaut was never properly suited to film noir. His enthusiasms were too childish and his outlook too optimistic to ever be properly gloomy or cynical for that most nihilistic of genres. His male characters […]
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, […]
Need help deciding what to watch this weekend on Warner Archive Instant? The Retro Set has you covered with our must-watch Warner Archive picks! Each week, we select a small handful of can’t miss titles from […]
You either like Charles Bronson or you don’t. I’m not a fan. You should probably know that before going into this review of one of his best films. I think he did adequate work in his […]
[dropcap size=small]H[/dropcap]e’s not allowed to play violent videogames,” my mother told them, my high school aged babysitters, as she left for work. The sound of an electro-revamping of John Barry’s James Bond theme managed to […]
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