Hyped since its Japanese release in 1997 as a movie Hitchcock could have made, Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue is a deliriously impressive,
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There's an awful lot of
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Anyone who has interviewed actors knows that even the greatest can say little to
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Despite being an inflated, polished-to-an-anonymous-shine Disney deal, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense has its nervous thumb on something, a... More>>
John Turturro points the camera at the stage in Illuminata,
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In Irvine Welsh's "The Granton Star Cause," one of three short stories from his collection The Acid House adapted for this film trilogy, a laddie... More>>
Inspired amateurism and shoestring ingenuity may not be to every taste, but anyone who thinks The Blair Witch Project has been oversold should... More>>
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A Director and Actor on Their Bracing Balkan Portrait
Graham Fuller,
July 27, 1999
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Tom Cruise is no stranger to homosexual subtext. His movies Top Gun and Cocktail are splashed with homoerotic undercurrents dolled up in
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During my last week at college, while struggling to complete my senior thesis on gangster movies, some wannabe artist asked me what I was going... More>>