The year is 1875, and the bottom has dropped out for the beef market. Cows are reduced to cheap hides and tallow, and the ranchers who built their empires on hundreds, thousands, of heads of steer are now considering foreclosures. … Continue reading COW COUNTRY
Indy sure does have to fight Nazis a lot. Probably because Raiders of the Lost Ark featured Nazis, and the movie did so well at the box office that the creators of the now five-film series fall back on that familiar formula … Continue reading INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
There once was a time when some of the brightest thinkers wondered if movies were the answer. Could this new visual language topple tyrants? Fix social problems? Rewrite the political landscape? There were many questions, and the answer kept coming … Continue reading PASOLINI 101
It’s spring 1865, and the American Civil War is winding down. Factions have sprung off, and the frontier is rife with outlaws and gangs. Stuck in the middle is Border City, a town straddling the Arkansas and Missouri state lines, … Continue reading WOMAN THEY ALMOST LYNCHED
The play’s the thing, and for Conrad Earp (Edward Norton), a Tennessee Williams-type with a predilection for Tom of Finland cowboy art, his new play is sure to be the one that wakes the audience up. Or puts them to … Continue reading ASTEROID CITY
They were friends in college, but it’s been 10 years since the whole group got together. Poor choices and hurt feelings came between them. But that was then, and this is now. And now they’re all getting together in a … Continue reading THE BLACKENING
It’s not easy being Dalí,” surrealist painter Salvador Dalí tells his assistant, 50 years his junior. Certainly not, by the looks of it: From parties to paintings, Dalí’s life is one continuous machine of theatricality and commerce surrounded by hangers-on, … Continue reading DALÍLAND
Peter Parker was just another kid in Queens when he was bitten by a radioactive spider, bringing physical gifts (and a simultaneous curse) beyond his wildest dreams. He may have a heightened sixth sense and strength hundreds of times that … Continue reading SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE
Liberal, Kansas is in disarray. The farmers, backed by banker Allen Harper (Robert Ryan), are trying to turn the hard, dry land into fertile soil. The cattlemen, financed by Logan Maury (Steve Brodie), are trying to run them out—either by stampeding … Continue reading TRAIL STREET
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