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I tweeted what was intended as satire of a festering right-wing panic over Antifa allegedly planning violence on November 4. It got weird from there. What is it like to attend your own funeral? In my mind, it has to be something like waking up on a Monday morning, logging onto Twitter, and finding out…
Filmmaker James Toback has long had a bad reputation with women. Stories about the writer-director often referred to him as a womanizer, but what that actually meant did not become clear until the Los Angeles Times published an investigation Sunday in which 38 women accused the writer-director of sexual harassment. Within two days those numbers…
Image via screenshot/Geostorm. The appeal of watching the planet get decimated by evil weather patterns at the movies has waned for some reason that I can’t quite put my finger on. Geostorm is a total catastrophe at the box office. According to Paste Magazine, Geostorm’s budget was $120 million (far larger than originally intended), which…
“This week, we’ve seen examples of powerful men at the highest levels of entertainment and politics, from Harvey Weinstein to Donald Trump, abusing their power to silence, bully, or coerce. And it’s a reminder that our toxic culture of male entitlement is still very much intact.” I agree with that statement, but I never expected…
Image: Sony Flatliners is a remarkable film. Specifically, it’s remarkable in that it takes an intriguing and ripe concept and does almost nothing with it. Instead, it fulfills the promise of its title by offering up a boring, lifeless story, fills it with dull, unsympathetic characters, and then keeps the thrills to an absolute minimum….
She can accurately fire a pistol over her shoulder while riding a motorcycle between two semi-trucks full of spy robots. No problem. She can fling a knife across a room and knock the earring off the Big Boss of the major corporation that has been secretly ordering the assassinations of international political figures. Piece of…
What is the significance of the red dress? You know the dress I’m talking about. The dress. The red one. The woman wore it, the woman who you weren’t sure if you should trust or not, the woman who had everyone’s eyes on her. The red dress that was cut—well, you remember how it was…
I watched Blade Runner for the first time this week. Since I have apparently been living in a cave for the past few decades, I thought that Blade Runner was kind of like Tron but with more Harrison Ford, and less neon, and maybe a few more tricky questions about What Is The Nature Of…
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After A New Hope, the 1980s were suspiciously swamped with fantastical space adventures featuring operatic villains with dramatic headwear. Cut to the mid-’90s, where Silence Of The Lambs inspired a handful of dark detective films about smooth-talking serial killers and newbie FBI agents. Yup, Hannibal Lecter and Darth Vader, two of the best movie villains…