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When Blade premiered in 1998, superhero cinema was on life support. Batman & Robin had turned the genre into a caricature the year before, Marvel Comics was broke and desperate, and a shared cinematic universe seemed unthinkable. Superheroes were fading into irrelevance.Then Wesley Snipes stepped across a blood-soaked floor wearing black leather, carrying a katana […]

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It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about Superman or Snow White, CGI is an important part of the modern blockbuster. Trivia nerds know that CGI has been a part of movies since computers were used to help make the opening titles of 1958’s Vertigo. But when most people think of the beginning of CGI in […]

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For the next week, M. Night Shyamalan is participating in a retrospective of his career at Film at Lincoln Center. It is there that most of Shyamalan’s work is being screened (in 35mm when possible) and paired with some of the idiosyncratic filmmaker’s favorite touchstones. For example Old, a movie about folks unable to physically […]

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Across the country this weekend, the following refrain echoed between movie theaters: “I’m done hidin’, now I’m shinin’, like I’m born to be.” Those words, sung by the trio Huntr/x, come from the Korean animated film KPop Demon Hunters, whose theatrical opening weekend earned approximately $18 million dollars at the North American box office, taking […]

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Starring Terence Stamp as the mourning transgender Bernadette Bassenger, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is even more relevant, moving, exquisite, funny, and bitchy than when it rolled over the land down under on release in 1994. Writer/director Stephan Elliott’s now-cult classic should be studied for its performances, social commentary, and expert indulgence […]

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Netflix and Sony Animation’s action-musical animated extravaganza, KPop Demon Hunters, has quickly become a global cultural phenomenon. Anecdotally, when I went to the top of the Empire State Building with some friends this past weekend, I noticed a young girl wearing a Huntr/x shirt while a stranger gushed about how much he and his friend […]

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Ron Howard always wanted to visit the Galápagos. In the director’s mind, it was a “bucket list” destination before there was a movie called The Bucket List. When we catch up with the Oscar-winning filmmaker, he even points out that he dreamed about this well ahead of his frequent collaborator and friend Paul Bettany filming […]

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Sometimes the most compelling stories are those told from perspectives we rarely consider. That’s exactly what screenwriter and director Dan Kay set out to do with What We Hide, an emotionally driven film that examines the ripple effects of addiction through the eyes of its youngest witnesses and those left to pick up the pieces […]

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Nerds ruled the 1980s, or so it seemed. Not only did geeks get their own franchise with Revenge of the Nerds, but they also were mainstays in movies such as The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles, and also films not starring Anthony Michael Hall. So it’s no surprise that the 1985 vampire film Fright Night would […]

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“I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.” When most people refer to that line, spoken by Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, they quote it to set up Ian McKellen as Gandalf the Grey’s thoughtful, resonate […]

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Released in 1971, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was a staple of the Generation X childhood, a film to be both adored and ironically homaged forever after. At the time, author Roald Dahl received a much publicized screenwriting credit, albeit that more reflected marketing concerns more than it ddid the actual work done (David […]

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Last February, and at the start of the Chinese New Year, a movie called Ne Zha 2 came to theaters around the world, including a relatively small handful of screens in the U.S. Since then it has earned more than $2.1 billion globally. For context, that makes it not only the biggest movie of the […]

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Sometimes it takes an outsider to diagnose a dysfunction in a family or the problem in a marriage. And when it comes to understanding the dynamics of the American Civil War, few filmmakers have captured the complexity and psychology that perpetuated this 19th century reckoning better than Taiwanese filmmaker Ang Lee. The director’s pensive and […]

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