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I haven’t seen the original THE HEARTBREAK KID for a long time but chunks of it have always stuck with me, especially that pitch-black tone ...

MICHAEL CLAYTON is an act of defiance, a shockingly good example of the sort of movie that doesn’t get made anymore, at least not by major s...

“Can you believe it’s nearly October?” asks a character early in the 1999 remake of THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR. The film begins during an unsea...

Show me a fantasy, science fiction or horror film from the 80s that tanked, I’ll show you a film that currently has a rabid cult following. ...

For a long time I’ve felt that if you’re watching a seventies movie, maybe from the early part of the decade, that has an extended title seq...

There’s a lot I like about INTO THE WILD, but a few specific elements really stay with me. Hal Holbrook turns up late in the film in a role ...

When I first saw UNFORGIVEN back in 1992, someone asked me how it was and I surprised myself by simply saying, “It’s the best western made s...

I have to write about THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD, I still have to put down my thoughts on the long version o...

It’s always nice to take a day off, particularly a Friday in September which starts off with totally clear skies and ends with the sun going...

“Very good. Maybe a little too good. Too clean. Yes, too precise. Too…formal. It should be more…trashy.” That's what David Hemmings says...