Wronged Women Make Things Right in Momentum and Julia

Starz Digital Media There really aren’t enough female-headlined action films, so when one comes along it’s almost worth a look on its existence alone. Ideally it will lean more Haywire than Mercenaries quality-wise, but the paucity of options means we’ll take...

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One of the Coolest Vampire Movies Ever: Watching Near Dark with Scott Weinberg

I am a film critic, but almost all of the movies I watch are new releases. That is going to change. With Jeff Bayer’s Remedial Film School a notable film critic or personality will assign me (and you) one film per month. Scott Weinberg is our guest, and...

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Watch The Trailer for The Star Wars Documentary Elstree 1976

The official trailer for Jon Spira’s Star Wars-related documentary has been released. The movie, Elstree 1976, revolves around the lives of 10 actors and actresses from the original Star Wars trilogy who played, for the most part, bit-roles and the effect...

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Official Trailer for Takashi Miike's Ghost Story 'Over Your Dead Body'

"You demon!" Shout Factory has debuted the official trailer for the upcoming US release of Takashi Miike's Over Your Dead Body, a film he made in-between Shield of Straw and Yakuza Apocalypse (which just premiered at Cannes). This film premiered in Japan in 2014...

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The Great Red North: A six-pack of ’70s Canadian horror classics

MGM It’s no secret: The 1970s were a pioneering and febrile decade for cinema of every genre. Horror was no exception and — thanks to a heady cocktail of fortuitous social and economic factors — Canada proved a particularly fertile breeding ground. The Great...

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17 Good Movies to Stream on Netflix in November 2015

Twentieth Century-Fox Okay, here’s the situation. You want movies and Netflix has got them, but they’ve got too many of them. Nobody has time to scroll through all those menus and try out all those movies. Except that we kind of do, because we’re dorks, so we...

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What Was The Last Movie To REALLY Scare You?

I was in middle school when I first saw Tremors II: Aftershocks. I’ve never been more scared. That’s probably not the best way to begin an article on Halloween; it’s also probably not the best way to talk about horror movies in general. You’d have to dig pretty...

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Mark Rylance, man of mystery

Kristin here: I asked Rylance, a most certain Best Supporting Actor nominee, if success would spoil him now. He had a good retort: “I thought I was successful already!” Indeed, he sure is. But Hollywood will embrace him. Roger Friedman, Showbiz 411 Will it? Well,...

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What’s Happening on Hulu

Tomorrow is Halloween, so there's no better time to indulge your most sinister appetites—and this week you can do just that with the films in Super Villains, our free festival on Hulu. The titles include two from Fritz Lang—M and The Testament . . . Read More ...

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An Interview with David Lynch

The following interview was originally published in the 2005 edition of filmmaker and writer Chris Rodley’s book Lynch on Lynch. The interviews included in the book were conducted by Rodley between 1993 and 2005. For Criterion’s release of . . . Read More ...

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Watch: A Video Tribute to Porkins and the Rebel Pilots of 'Star Wars'

"Eject!" "I can hold it…" "Pull up!" "No I'm alri-" Need a laugh? This is a good one if you're a Star Wars fan. Scott Collura and Khalilah Alston have edited a Star Wars Tribute supercut video of all the deaths of the Rebel pilots from the three original Star...

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