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‘Sicario’—Making America Great Again—Villeneuve’s Beige Border Chronicle of an Unwinnable War Foretold

  April 11, 2024   By Graham S. Clarke and Ross Clarke   The combination of Villeneuve’s direction, Sheridan’s script,…

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Defying Gravity: The Cosmic Corn of Christopher Nolan’s ‘Interstellar’

Interstellar poster art by Zero   March 13, 2024   By Tim Pelan   I thought of a labyrinth of…

1 month ago

Double Solitaire: The Films of Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder

Applause Books on Film (Rowman/Littlefield Publishing)   February 23, 2024   By Donald Brackett   Movies are magic. —Van Dyke…

2 months ago

‘Mulholland Drive’: David Lynch’s Surrealist Masterpiece Bridges the Gap Between the Conscious and Subconscious Mind

Mulholland Drive poster art by Kevin Tong   January 4, 2024   By Koraljka Suton   An idea comes, and…

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‘The Wicker Man’: The True Nature of Sacrifice

The Wicker Man poster art by Dan Mumford, https://www.dan-mumford.com/   November 6, 2023   By Tim Pelan   Making the…

5 months ago

Trickle Down Robonomics—The Predatory Capitalism of ‘RoboCop’

RoboCop poster art by Grzegorz Domaradzki (Gabz), https://iamgabz.com/   August 21, 2023   By Tim Pelan   The violence in…

8 months ago

NOC NOC: How ‘Mission: Impossible’ Lit the Fuse of Action Stardom Within Tom Cruise

Mission: Impossible poster art by Radostina/CinemaCity00   July 18, 2023   By Tim Pelan   In my mid-50s, doing 'Carlito's…

9 months ago

Unveiling Ridley Scott’s Cinematic Grail:
‘The Illustrated Blade Runner’

Photographed by Stephen Vaughan © Warner Bros., Ridley Scott Productions   March 23, 2023   By Sven Mikulec   There’s…

1 year ago

Peter Weir’s ‘Dead Poets Society’: An Awe-Inspiring Celebration of the Human Spirit

  March 17, 2023   I've tried, to some extent, to disassemble my style, to fight against my own signature.…

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