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Donna Deitch’s 1985 film sees two women falling in love against a breathtaking Nevada landscape.
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On the art of missing BLADE RUNNER 2
I decided pretty early on that I wouldn’t be going to see Blade Runner 2049, long before it was called that, or before Denis Villeneuve was announced to direct it (certainly, one of my “must see” filmmakers in this decade), or…
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Deathwatch: HARRY DEAN STANTON (1926-2017)
Welcome to Deathwatch! Every month, as one of the legends of pop culture passes away, we’ll have a look back at two films from his or her career, and place it in the context of the career as a whole.
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10+ Years Later: THE GOLDEN COMPASS, a Failed Footnote in Fantasy Adaptations
I’m reading La Belle Sauvage this week and I’m happy as a clam, and the timing feels right to tear (yet another) strip off The Golden Compass, which was an abjectly terrible adaptation of (my favourite) book.
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Blu-ray Review: Musical Man-Eating Mermaids in Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s THE LURE
Polish horror-musical repatriates The Little Mermaid by way of feminist carnage.
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Blu-ray Review: Kelly Reichardt’s CERTAIN WOMEN Joins the Criterion Collection
This rewarding trio of stories bring out the best in four great actresses.
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Blu-ray Review: Mike Leigh’s MEANTIME, A Well-Timed Criterion Release
The 1984 TV-movie is better than half the prestige TV in your Netflix queue.
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Destroy All Monsters: All Monsters Destroyed
“All Monsters Destroyed?” Well no, of course not. I wish the things that became the common themes in my weekly column at Screen Anarchy over the course of the past 4+ years could be called “resolved” — but really, they’ve just…
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Blu-ray Review: Criterion Cannot Illuminate the Multitudes Within Tarkovsky’s STALKER
This will be my third time seeing the film, and I am heartily glad to find it on the Criterion Collection this month after a few teases in that direction in the past — few films I’ve ever seen have…
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Destroy All Monsters: That’s Fine, There Never Should Have Been A HAN SOLO Movie Anyway
I finally said it.
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