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Remakes may feel like the name of the game these days, but it’s always been like this. What’s changed is the availability of the original. Saw How to Train Your Dragon in theaters? Watch the animated version on Peacock today! … Continue reading Sweaty Double Feature: THE WAGES OF FEAR and SORCERER
When you see Elio this weekend, hang around for the end credits and keep an eye out for the name Matthew Silas. He’s a CU Boulder grad, and he’s working for Pixar Animation Studios in layout. “Layout is the department … Continue reading The Animated Life: Matthew Silas on ELIO
Sure, he’s handsome, but can he drive? You bet. His name is Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt), and he can drop behind the wheel of a Formula One racecar, take it for a spin and tell you exactly what’s wrong with … Continue reading F1: The Movie
Once upon a time, American letters were full of subversives, satirists, and provocateurs. They made you laugh. They made you think. They changed how you saw the world. The best of them made you uncomfortable within safe spaces and made … Continue reading Dad Strangelove: Nile Southern on Terry Southern
What greater hell could exist for a parent than the loss of a child? The lengths they would go to undo what has been done, the bargains they would cut, must be bottomless. Pain that fathomable—even for those who haven’t … Continue reading BRING HER BACK
The two most interesting moments in The Phoenician Scheme—the latest from director Wes Anderson—come at the beginning and end of the movie. As for what happens in between, we’ll get there. By the beginning, I don’t mean the actual opening … Continue reading THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME
For the past 30 years, Ethan Hunt has had a choice. “Your mission, if you choose to accept.” And he accepts; he always does. But what if Hunt never had a choice to start with? I guess the choice: “Yes … Continue reading MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – THE FINAL RECKONING
Some topics never go out of fashion. We really wish they would, but we never seem to be that lucky. On June 1, the Women+Film Festival will host a community conversation: The Makings of a Moral Panic (10 a.m.), exploring … Continue reading Wish You Were Here: Previewing the 2025 Women+Film Festival
Everybody has a friend like Withnail. And everybody’s worked for a Denis. That’s easy to see. It gets harder when, one day, you stare into the mirror and see either of them looking back. When that day comes, it’s time … Continue reading WITHNAIL AND I and HOW TO GET AHEAD IN ADVERTISING
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