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Monday Movie: The Thing, by Jack Fleischer

Every Monday, we’ll highlight a piece of writing from our vaults. This review of The Thing originally ran as a theatrical review. John Carpenter’s The Thing is a movie with sanctified status. While a casual Carpenter fan I had never seen this...

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Home Video Hovel: Eastern Condors, by Rudie Obias

Every now and then the Criterion Collection selects oddball and pulpy B-movies — like House, The Blob, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Blast of Silence, and Carnival of Souls— that seemingly don’t fit their mission statement of “publishing important classic and...

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Home Video Hovel: Gummo, by Rudie Obias

In 1995, filmmaker Harmony Korine broke out with the indie hit film Kids, which was written by Korine and directed by Larry Clark. A few years later, Korine released his directorial debut Gummo with a sharp division with film critics...

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Am I Racist?: Be Better, by Tyler Smith

Justin Folk’s Am I Racist? is the latest film from conservative website The Daily Wire and it is, in many ways, exactly what you would expect. It is a reaction and rejection of the current political conversation about race. In...

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2024: *smiles and kisses you*, by Simon Read

A documentary about a young man who anthropomorphizes his love doll might seem like an exploitative bit of titillating voyeurism, and for all the thought that’s been put into the project, Bryan Carberry‘s film would probably be just that, were...

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