American Gigolo helped create and define Richard Gere as an actor with uniquely chameleon sex appeal. But how?
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If many of Steven Spielberg’s films are marathon novels, Duel is a sonnet—it has room to play because of its formal constraints.
You’ve seen the image online or you’ve seen it in your dreams. The gaping mouth, the white of the eyes. The finger pointing straight into the lens. The terrible moment of mirror revelation: I know what you are.
In 2020, Burn After Reading feels both more ridiculous and more painful than when it was first released—more capable of breaking down your defenses against laughter, and more likely to keep you up at night.
We are all slowly suffocating on the dust of this country, on the oxygen-less air of American exceptionalism. No one is coming to drill us out.
At their hearts, Boogie Nights and There Will Be Blood share a key notion: your greatest asset (some pun intended) too often ends up being your greatest curse.
t’s lowbrow. It’s juvenile. It’s crude; it’s course. It’s impulse, not intellect. It siphons its humor from someone else’s pain....
I am not a Carrie. I am not a Miranda or a Samantha or a Charlotte. I’m also not a...
Lost Highway is no exception to Lynch’s disregard for linear and/or comprehensible story lines. And yet it solicits more curiosity than frustration.
Chris & Elizabeth Cantwell, discuss one of the most legendary films of the 1960s.
Watching The Big Sleep, the question bouncing around in my head was not is this a good film, but rather, why is this a good film, and how?
It is summer in America and everywhere you look you see people in denial. You are waiting for someone to turn the boat around.