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Creative partners since the early 1940s, Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly hadn’t actually made a film together for three years when It’s Always Fair Weather…
Since 1974, Troma Entertainment has enjoyed its position as the longest running independent film studio in the world, having been responsible for either the production…
Writing in the second issue of the Southeast Asian film magazine MARG1N, Singaporean wunderkind Yeo Siew Hua lamented the incongruence between filmic and lived reality,…
Whether they be achieved formally, thematically, or even sonically, few filmmakers are capable of pulling off a myriad of genres like that of impossibly dexterous…
What really is the Circle of Life for people (and animals) not comfortably positioned inside the perfectly calibrated version of Disneyland? Do the laws and…
The central tension of Caught Stealing — an ostensibly breezy “wrong man” comedic-thriller set in Giuliani-era New York City that finds our besieged main character, Hank…
The erotic thriller has encountered a resurgence in popularity of late, partly due to how well the genre plays at home, making it ideal escapism…
There was a noticeable shift in American genre filmmaking as the New Hollywood-dominated 1970s faded and gave way to the more cynical zeitgeist of the…
The best action movie franchise of the 2020s is about a couple of teenage slackers who, when they aren’t being incredibly lazy, work as hired…
Noémie Merlant’s The Balconettes begins with a corker of an opening shot. Predominantly taking place at adjoining apartment complexes in Marseille separated by a courtyard, the film…
While hardly the first to do it, Richard Linklater’s masterful execution of the walk-and-talk two-hander with 1995’s Before Sunrise ushered in a wave of similarly…
The marketing for Eenie Meanie touts the film as being the brainchild of “the guys who wrote Deadpool,” which conjures up images of an action-comedy…
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In the 1960s, the genre that would become known in Japan as pinku eiga had just taken shape. This was a genre that dealt explicitly…
Can an auteur just take the piss every now and then? There’s always something distinctly perverse and ultimately scintillating about major figures going minor. It’s…
Taking a look at a list of the 10 highest-grossing films worldwide of all-time, the suspects are usual: James Cameron sits there thrice, as does…
The Plant from the Canaries The canary, a songbird of the finch family, occupies an eminent place in avian symbolism, not least for its melodious…