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Fantastical Hope in the Face of Evil
Sydney Wegner writes about two cinematic beacons of hope in 2016: "Shin Godzilla" and Stephen Chow's "The Mermaid."
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“Jaws” At 40
Few directors have a filmography with as many highlights as Steven Spielberg, and few of his films transfer so cleanly from one decade to the next as his 1975 film Jaws. Spielberg’s first major feature at the helm, which is turning the corner on 40 years since...
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“Monsters: Dark Continent”
In retrospect, Gareth Edwards’ 2010 film Monsters looks more like an audition tape for his covertly profound epic Godzilla four years later. He laid the groundwork for his revival of Toho’s iconic kaiju with Monsters, from the sober-minded assessment of how gi...
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A Cinephile’s Survival Guide to February
As assuredly as Punxsutawney Phil will crawl out of his hole every February 2nd and declare it spring (or six more weeks of winter), the second month of the year also brings upon all of us some of the worst box office weekends on the calendar. Known as a dumpi...
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Film Critic of the Week: Keith Uhlich
Welcome to Film Critic of the Week, a weekly mini-cast where we pick the brains of our favorite film critics.
Today, we’ve got the estimable Keith Uhlich, who has written for Time Out New York, The L Magazine, The AV Club, To Be Continued, Slant, Revers...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 175: “Inspector Gadget”
Are you feeling brainy? We hope so, because matters of the mind are on tap for this week's episode of Mousterpiece Cinema. Josh and Gabe are ready to tackle the 1999 adaptation of the 1980s cartoon Inspector Gadget, starring Matthew Broderick and Rupert Everet...
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District Mined: The Gerrymandering of Contemporary Cinema
While concerned citizens and political journalists agonized over the fate of the Senate in the weeks leading up to the mid-term elections, there was a good reason no one was talking about the fate of the House: Due to the gerrymandering of Congressional distri...
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“Godzilla 2” Release Date Set For June 2018
We've known there was going to be a followup to this year's smash hit Godzilla, and now we have know when we'll see it. Variety reports that Legendary and Warner Bros. have set a June 8th, 2018 release date for the sequel currently just referred to as Godzilla...
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Joe Cornish May Head to “Skull Island”
One of the bigger surprises to come out during this year's Comic-Con was that Legendary Pictures is keeping the monster train rolling by reviving King Kong in Skull Island, set to be released Nov. 4, 2016. Just a few days later they've announced who they'd lik...
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Halftime Report: The Best Movies of 2014 So Far
The year has now half passed us by, which marks a good opportunity to take stock of what it's offered cinematically so far. Releasing a "best of" list for half a year may seem like clickbaiting, and perhaps it is, but it's no more so than any other kind of lis...
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