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Armageddon is the Pits The first time I watched Miracle Mile, I kind of got obsessed with it. It was the first movie I...
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Armageddon is the Pits The first time I watched Miracle Mile, I kind of got obsessed with it. It was the first movie I...
The first time I watched Saturday Night Live, I didn’t know what I was watching. When I was eleven years old I found an...
Literally everything we remember fondly about the Thin Man series is contained in the first scene of the second movie. In After the Thin...
Tim Burton is one of the few living directors who can lay claim to an adjective. Yes, he has a distinct visual style—practically...
Fans are fond of calling Galaxy Quest the greatest Star Trek movie never made (at a 2013 Vegas con it placed seventh in a...
American Movie is a painful watch. Usually that’s a dealbreaker. In the case of Chris Smith’s unflinching (but not unfeeling) 1999 documentary about Mark...
The 1955 children’s book Harold and the Purple Crayon is simplicity itself: a four-year-old boy, Harold, has nothing to fill his world but empty...
Hanks For The Ride If I ever get to address a college graduation ceremony, I will tell them the truest thing I know: live...
I was to understand there would be pie and punch. Whenever people asked Andy Kaufman how he wanted to be remembered, he always...
Midway through Glory, there’s a scene where Matthew Broderick cuts down watermelons with a sword. As Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw—commander of the all-Black...
Making With the Waters Works I was working as a (very) junior flunky at Universal Pictures marketing in early 1990 when a fax came...
An unfortunate movie trope gets the Men in Black treatment in The American Society of Magical Negroes, as a young Black man is recruited...
Satan was a hot property back in the late sixties and early 70s. I was too young for Rosemary’s Baby and The Exorcist, but...
I never got my Quisp propeller beanie. Maybe I didn’t enclose enough boxtops, but it’s more likely that the Quaker Oats Company—manufacturer of the...
There’s a major twist two-thirds of the way into Eileen. It’s not something that many people will see coming—not a lot of foreshadowing—and yet...
Is the world ready for another Tom Ripley? Writer-director Steven Zaillian (Searching for Bobby Fischer) seems to think so, and in this third adaptation...
When you’ve acquired the rights to a character—but not either of the books that character appears in—a prequel is likely to be your safest...
Who is Darkman? In the summer of 1989, I had only been working in the marketing department of Universal Pictures for a few weeks...
I’ve been waiting for two years to watch the debut of the re-imagined Shōgun, one of my all-time favorite novels, and I’m happy to...
WandaVision is basically four shows in one. There’s the fun one that goes meta on sitcom visions of family life across the decades. There’s...
It’s getting hard out there for The Boys. Not just the lads themselves, nor for boys in general —although a season that begins with...
James Cameron gave two speeches on the night that Titanic won eleven Academy Awards. The first one for Best Director began with his declaration...
When author Neil Gaiman was challenged to give a one-line summary to his famously sprawling The Sandman, he offered the following: “The King of...
During the second hour of Maestro, there’s a scene where Bradley Cooper’s Leonard Bernstein comforts his dying wife Felicia, then draws all three of...