J.J. Abrams reinvention of Star Trek is as thrilling a ride as we have seen anywhere this year. The franchise has been re-booted (as the saying goes) and re-started from…
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One of the first films I reviewed when I started here was an charming documentary called Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey in which Canadian fans Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen travelled…
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Jeffrey Wells feels burned by the new Sony Blu-ray of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, calling the picture a "grainstorm." I just got my hands on it, haven't looked at it in…
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I've told this tale before, but it bears repeating here, I think. A few years back I had lunch with a veteran distributor who was starting a new DVD label.…
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In Boxcar Bertha, Scorsese, 1972The actor, who was in his way as much a cinema icon as a television one, was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room, according to…
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A quite representative shot from Michelangelo Antonioni's 1957 Il Grido, a film that seems to take place in a perpetual mist, not really that unlike the atmosphere in Dreyer's otherwise…
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