August Underground (2001) is one of those films defined by word of mouth and rumors. When it came out, the internet wasn’t as all-encompassing as it is now; things were still spread manually, passed around in niche underground networks. The internet was still in its “wild west” phase, […]
This month I had a very serious article topic in mind, but everything in real life is so serious and difficult right now that I decided what was actually needed was something ridiculous. A friend of mine often goes to whatever is showing at the local discount cinema […]
Sometimes you encounter a movie late at night. A movie you didn’t even know existed before. And you discover that the movie had basically disappeared for 30 years. Cindy Sherman’s Office Killer was supposed to be the first in a series of low budget art house horror movies. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival’s Midnight Madness program in 1997. It was picked up by Miramax, released in a limited run of art house theaters and then it just disappeared.
The journey from unfair to unjust is a twisted maze, one littered with false starts and dead ends; it’s also, significantly, the journey undertaken in Labyrinth, from childhood to adulthood, powerlessness to power.
“During the past 20 years I know that my compulsion to understand death was much greater than just an obsession. My dreams have dictated my mission. But now it is time to witness the final moment, to discover the circle that forever repeats itself. The end of the […]
[Spoilers!] You can tell from the title: The Burning Train is a huge disaster movie imperiling half of the Bombay film industry’s contemporary A-listers, and I couldn’t be more delighted. Pick up your #2 pencils and answer the following: 1) What is the maximum possible speed of our […]
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