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When Axel Rose: “Beverly Hills Cop” at 30
It’s impossible to overstate, even 30 years later, how huge Eddie Murphy was in 1984. After starting stand-up as a teenager and joining Saturday Night Live in 1980 when he was just 19, he continued to grow his stardom in 1982 with his first comedy album and hi...
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The Eyes Behind the Mask: “Pulp Fiction” and Postmodernity 20 Years Later
“I’m American, honey. Our names don’t mean shit.”---Butch Coolidge, Pulp Fiction
In his essay “Postmodernism and Consumer Society,” Marxist critic Frederic Jameson argues that the concept of postmodernism is primarily a product of the social and economic or...
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Days of Future Past: Looking Back at Shane Carruth’s “Primer” After 10 Years
When Primer was released in 2004, Shane Carruth—the film’s writer, director, producer, composer, editor, and one of its two main actors—was barely past 30, and he’d spent a couple of years assembling the film on his laptop for a final production cost of about ...
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