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On The Third Day The Matrix Was Resurrected
(SOME SPOILERS MAY HAVE BEEN HACKED) A cottage industry of philosophy books sprouted up after The Matrix was originally released in 1999. A bookstore could have had an entire secti…
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The Visionary Vision of Denis Villenueve’s Dune
What do we mean when we say “visionary?” Who is a visionary? The Webster Dictionary defines the word as: “having or marked by foresight and imagination” or “one having unusual fore…
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The Many Issues With The Many Saints of Newark
We live in a time when every character needs an origin story and every franchise needs a prequel. Whether this need is based on actual audience demand or if it's a demand created b…
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The Exorcist Scaring Audiences For More Than Forty Years
The Exorcist and New Hollywood
The Seventies was a great decade for movies. Directors like Francis For Coppola, Bob Rafelson, and Hal Ashby were creating movies with a freedom uns…
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The Cinema of Revenge Part Three: The Rhythm Section, I Saw The Devil, Violation
Revenge, as they say, is a dish best served cold. In the movie world it’s also served hot with blood, bullets, guns, and knives. It comes in explosions and implosions. It's sliced …
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The Troubles, The Commitments, and The Criterion Collection
The 80s and 90s seemed, from an outward looking perspective, to be dominated by the ongoing conflict between the IRA (Irish Republican Army, used here as a catch-all for the differ…
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Red River Stampedes Through The National Film Registry
Red River has been called the greatest Western of all time. Discounting Howard Hawk's clean up job on Howard Hughes's The Outlaw, Red River was his first foray in the Western genre…
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That’s No Dog: A Re-Examination of The Thing 2011 And The Future Remake
John Carpenter's The Thing was not a critical or commercial success when it was originally released in 1982. It was only after repeated showings on pay cable channels and VHS that …
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Wonder Woman 1984: A Movie For The End Of A Horrible Year
(We've lassoed up some spoilers so we have to tell you the truth) After more than a year of delays and constant social media reminders of delays, Wonder Woman 1984 finally dropped …
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Silence of the Lambs And The Cheap Ploy of Hannibal Lecter
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
We're a culture obsessed with murder and murderers, serial killers to be more precise. We know them by their nicknames: The Son of Sam, BTK, The Green Riv…