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Criterion Releases: September 2021

This is a spicy set we have for this month. Some are full of boundary pushers who make scenes stand out to shock us, others are moving snippets of life in general....

Op-ed: Real Athletes Playing Themselves in Movies

So, we saw Space Jam: A New Legacy. Okay, we can now all laugh at how ridiculous it was. It's supposed to be because it's for kids, not the adults who remembered...

Op-ed: We Blew It: The Fast Rise and Even Faster Fall Of BBS

I recently read a book that is both entertaining and eye-opening called "Easy Riders, Raging Bulls" by Peter Biskind. Published in 1998, this best-seller details the era of New Hollywood from 1967's...

Op-ed: The Ship Can’t Sink Any Further: More Film Productions Off The Rails

This is my third (maybe fourth) piece on disasters in filmmaking because they are both funny and horrifying. It is where a director's ego and the studio's pocketbook collide, lighting on fire...

Criterion Releases: August 2021

This time, it's only four films getting released. A masterpiece of Polish cinema involving a mysterious figure working underground as part of the Resistance against the occupying Germans. A live documentary on...

Fatal Excess: How Don Simpson Lived Rich And Died Quick

He was only fifty-two years old when he was dead in the bathroom of his mansion from drug-related heart failure on January 19, 1996. Tragically young, but not surprising to anyone in...

Cannes 1969: The Year Of Sudden De-Politicalization

The question of movies becoming political has existed since the invention of movies and has been subject to debate. Can escapism co-exist with realism or do movies have to lean in one...

Op-ed: What to Look Out For At Cannes This Year

One year after being canceled, the movie world goes back to the Mediterranean for the 74th annual Cannes Film Festival. Spike Lee is the head of the jury and Leos Carax is...

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