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    The ‘Juice”d Up Hip-Hop of the 90s

    by Kali Tuttle March 4, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle March 4, 2022

    It’s hard to imagine a movie that has more 90s hip-hop nostalgia than Juice. It was the golden age for movies like it, with Boyz n the Hood in 1991 and Menace II Society in…

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    ‘Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot!’: Is This Stallone’s Most Embarrassing Film?

    by Chris van Dijk February 13, 2022
    by Chris van Dijk February 13, 2022

    I had a choice between writing a retrospective on David Lynch’s haunting Lost Highway, or this embarrassing 1992 comedy starring Sylvester Stallone and Estelle Getty. Every reasonable cineaste would naturally choose the former. One movie…

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    David and Goliath and ‘JFK’

    by Kali Tuttle February 1, 2022
    by Kali Tuttle February 1, 2022

    JFK has its share of flaws. Director Oliver Stone, a Vietnam veteran, displays his strong disdain for the government throughout the film. Blinded by this, some of the information included in the film is incorrect and some…

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    The Tragedy of ‘Beverly Hills Ninja’

    by Chris van Dijk January 28, 2022
    by Chris van Dijk January 28, 2022

    I’m probably writing this article prematurely. On my reading list, I have somewhere — beneath hundreds of other books I promised myself I would read one day — Kevin Farley’s supposedly touching memoir about his…

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    The Lord of the Rings Trilogy Is Still My Precious

    by Patricia Henderson January 3, 2022
    by Patricia Henderson January 3, 2022

    Movies have always been an important part of my life; from my first (traumatic) cinema experience, to a present where I write about movies, and yap about them on YouTube. However, in the later 1990s-very…

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    Lisbeth Deserved Better in David Fincher’s ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’

    by Kali Tuttle December 23, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle December 23, 2021

    Mikael Blomkvist (Daniel Craig) got the ending that Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) deserved in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. After years of the government bouncing her around and facing discrimination and violence, she deserved to be…

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    In Defense of ‘The Matrix’ Sequels

    by Spencer Henderson December 22, 2021
    by Spencer Henderson December 22, 2021

    In 1999, the film industry underwent a seismic shift that would change cinema forever when Lana and Lilly Wachowski released The Matrix. The film was an immediate cultural phenomenon and proved to be a massive…

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    ‘Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’ 10 Years On

    by Brian Connor December 15, 2021
    by Brian Connor December 15, 2021

    We’ve mentioned the Mission: Impossible franchise before in the context of anniversaries. Back in the days when the franchise was hopping from director to director with big stylistic changes from entry to entry. While they…

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    ‘The English Patient’ Is a Villain Origin Story

    by Kali Tuttle December 3, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle December 3, 2021

    Ralph Fiennes excels at playing villains, even when he isn’t necessarily trying to. The English Patient is a good example of this. Even though Laszlo de Almásy (Fiennes) is our main character that we should sympathize with,…

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    Martin Scorcese’s Hitchcockian ‘Cape Fear’

    by Kali Tuttle November 29, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle November 29, 2021

    Cape Fear is a Hitchcock film without Hitchcock. Who better to make it than Martin Scorcese, the master of all things bloody and dark? It’s the kind of film that theaters were made for. Cape Fear is…

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    ‘The Crucible’: Timeless, Powerful, and Forever Universal

    by Adina Bernstein November 28, 2021
    by Adina Bernstein November 28, 2021

    In 1953, a new play premiered. Written by the legendary playwright Arthur Miller, The Crucible is loosely based on the Salem Witch Trials. Though the narrative is based on historical events, Miller was indirectly talking…

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    A Fool’s Dream: Celebrating Wes Craven’s ‘The People Under the Stairs’

    by Chris van Dijk November 11, 2021
    by Chris van Dijk November 11, 2021

    Thirty years ago we were treated to Wes Craven’s deliriously entertaining socially-conscious horror roller coaster, The People Under the Stairs. When we talk about Craven’s oeuvre, the usual suspects are mentioned: the exploitation classic, The…

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    ‘How Green Was My Valley’: Always Relevant

    by Kali Tuttle November 4, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle November 4, 2021

    I was introduced to How Green Was My Valley through Frasier (and no one was surprised). There’s an episode where Frasier goes to several different video rental stores just to find this one movie — How Green Was My Valley.…

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    ‘That Thing You Do!’ Still Deserves That Blue Ribbon!

    by Patricia Henderson November 2, 2021
    by Patricia Henderson November 2, 2021

    When someone dons multiple hats on a production (such as starring, directing, and/or writing), the results can vary greatly. Yes, there are times when everything falls into place, and we end up with Citizen Kane,…

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    ‘My Own Private Idaho’ Is a Journey of Feelings

    by Kali Tuttle October 29, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle October 29, 2021

    My Own Private Idaho is weird to watch for the first time. I don’t know what I was expecting, but a group of young male prostitutes with Shakespearean vernacular was not it. All I knew about…

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    ‘Training Day’: The Making of a ‘Good’ Villain

    by Kali Tuttle October 21, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle October 21, 2021

    I’d never seen Training Day before this past week and so I had the idea in my head that Denzel Washington’s character, Alonzo, was the hero of our story. He was rough around the edges and a…

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    ‘The Thing’ and ‘Footloose’ (2011), Or The Do’s and Dont’s of Remakes

    by Brian Connor October 15, 2021
    by Brian Connor October 15, 2021

    Ten years ago saw the release of remakes of The Thing and Footloose (Prequel, shmequel, you know damn well the 2011 The Thing is a remake really, but we’ll come back to that). Footloose made $63 million…

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    ‘Halloween II’: The Best of the Sequels That No Longer Exist

    by Patricia Henderson October 14, 2021
    by Patricia Henderson October 14, 2021

    Along with the highly-anticipated release of Halloween Kills, comes the desire to revisit past films in the franchise. Coincidentally, Halloween II, one of the best chapters in the Michael Myers lore, turns 40 this month. Kind…

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    Possession (1981): Divorce, Demons, and a Damn Good Horror Film

    by Spencer Henderson October 6, 2021
    by Spencer Henderson October 6, 2021

    Andrzej Zulawski’s 1981 horror film Possession has been a particularly difficult film to view legally in the United States. For this reason, it has been on my radar for literal years as a film I have heard…

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    The ‘Drive’ Cult

    by Kali Tuttle October 1, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle October 1, 2021

    You never really know what you’re in for when you watch Drive. You think it’s a movie about crime, then it becomes a slow-burning journey of self-discovery, then it’s a romance, then it’s back to a crime…

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    New York Film Festival 2021 Review: ‘Hester Street’

    by James Y. Lee September 27, 2021
    by James Y. Lee September 27, 2021

    It’s only fitting that New York City‘s biggest film festival has chosen to premiere Cohen Film Collection’s new 4K restoration of Joan Micklin Silver’s Hester Street — a film so obviously tied to the city’s legacy…

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    ‘Warrior’: Good Versus…Good?

    by Kali Tuttle September 23, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle September 23, 2021

    Warrior is a dramatic look at the world of MMA, as seen through the eyes of two brothers with a complicated relationship. While this is a sports movie primarily about fighting, much of Warrior is dedicated to…

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    ‘An American Werewolf in London’: Horror, Comedy, and Childhood Trauma

    by Patricia Henderson September 5, 2021
    by Patricia Henderson September 5, 2021

    Every so often, the “What was the first movie you saw on the big screen?” topic comes up. For most people, the answer is something like Bambi, or E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (incidentally, the second film I…

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    ‘Tin Cup’ Is a Cut Above the Rest

    by Kali Tuttle September 3, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle September 3, 2021

    Tin Cup is unique. It’s about a sport that I would wager most people find pretty uneventful. It’s a comedy, but it isn’t slapstick like Caddyshack or The Longest Yard. Most of all, our hero doesn’t win in the end;…

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    Does ‘The Help’ Really Address Racism?

    by Kali Tuttle September 2, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle September 2, 2021

    I’ll admit that I’m not the foremost scholar when it comes to racism. I’m a white girl from the Intermountain West who grew up in a predominantly white world. But, I think it’s important to…

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    Andy Serkis’ Caesar: Ten Years of ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’

    by Brennan Dubé August 29, 2021
    by Brennan Dubé August 29, 2021

    This month marked ten years since one of the last decades’ most beloved characters first swung onto the big screen. In Rise of the Planet of the Apes we saw the birth of Andy Serkis’…

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    ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ and Its “Amazing” Dialogue

    by Kali Tuttle August 19, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle August 19, 2021

    When reading about Cowboys & Aliens, you would think it was perhaps one of the most ridiculous movies made in 2011. Then again, watching it may make you think that, too. Yet, it’s one of…

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    ‘Kazaam’ Confuses Me To No End

    by Kali Tuttle August 3, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle August 3, 2021

    Kazaam is much like a cheese — it had the potential to age well, but someone kept it in their prewar apartment cupboard at a constant temperature of 80 degrees and now it just reeks.…

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    Is Nate the Villain of ‘The Devil Wears Prada’?

    by Adina Bernstein August 2, 2021
    by Adina Bernstein August 2, 2021

    When considering whether to accept a job or not, one of the factors is the work-life balance. In an ideal world, we would be able to leave at the same time every day and have…

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    Who Allowed ‘Cars 2’ To Be Made???

    by Kali Tuttle June 30, 2021
    by Kali Tuttle June 30, 2021

    Cars 2 is a cute little family-friendly movie that you can watch with your kids, right? WRONG. Cars 2 is the most violent, intense, and bizarre movie I have ever seen that is still entirely made for…

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