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'Get Shorty' Is the Purest Distillation of Elmore Leonard

The 1995 Hollywood caper Get Shorty, starring John Travolta, Gene Hackman and Danny DeVito, was billed as Elmore Leonard's revenge on the movie industry, but it has a funny way of showing it.

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The Bee-all and End-all of 'The Swarm', or Irwin Allen's Human Bee-in

No matter if they're African or Brazilian bad-ass bees, what matters to the Yanks in The Swarm is that a bunch of vicious foreigners want to invade their land and claim their women!

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The Outer Limits of Spookery: Resurrecting 'The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre'

The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre feels like an unknown episode of The Outer Limits dropped in from an alternate dimension.

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An Insecure Cinematic Reality: Director Matthew Holness on 'Possum'

Writer-director Matthew Holness on inviting the audience to gaze into its own unconscious.

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No Trickery, No Pretense: Director Michael Peterson on 'Knuckleball'

Michael Peterson reflects on knowing the places one can bend and twist the tropes of genre to bring something new to the crowded space of horror film.

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'Bad Times at the El Royale' Strives to Be More than the Usual Crime Film

Over the course of one wild and violent day, several travelers check in, bringing more baggage than just the luggage they carry.

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TIFF 2018: 'Greta'

Neil Jordan's latest thriller, Greta, doesn't make sense -- but it's a wild ride.

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'Nightcrawler' and the Brand Called Lou Bloom™

The personal branding phenomenon is an ongoing crisis of humanity.

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We Are Made for This World: Interview with Director Ivan Sen on His Film, 'Goldstone'

The struggles to overcome our surroundings permeate Sen's work and life.

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'Braid': A Discombobulated, Euphoric, and Unstable Riddle

Writer-director Peirone brings a questioning gaze to the concept of reality.

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Struggles of the VHS Obsessive: Interview with 'Videoman' Director Kristian A. Söderström

The world premiere of Videoman (Videomannen) at Arrow Video FrightFest 2018 finds director Söderström telling a tale of characters that are trying to deal with reality.

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The Erotic Tease in 'Tiger by the Tail' Turns into an Explosion of Fisticuffs

Whenever this movie threatens to get sexy or implies nudity, the story hastily goes back to two-fisted action.

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Is Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt Ready to Let It Go? 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout'

Hasn't Ethan Hunt saved the world enough to earn a lifetime of couch surfing?

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Cinema Is Anti-Spiritual: Interview with 'First Reformed' Director Paul Schrader

First Reformed may explore the edges of faith but director Paul Schrader believes that what moves us in cinema is no mystery: it's simply "action and empathy".

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'The Seventh Cross' Is a Vital Tale for Anyone Concerned About the Resurgence of Totalitarianism

The beautiful storytelling of Anna Seghers' World War II classic belies its important insights into life under fascism.

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'Sicario: Day of the Soldado' Is a Lean, Mean, and Troublesome Thriller

Stefano Sollima's hyper-violent thriller is a manly movie about hard men doing hard things.

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Paved with Good Inventions: Norway's Anja Garbarek on Her Journey Back to Music with 'The Road Is Just a Surface'

Jackie Chan's 10 Best Films

The Coen Brothers' 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' Is American Myth in Vignette

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