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Howard Chaykin – A Life in Comics
A deep dive conversation between author Michael Tisserand and Howard Chaykin, whose life and career offer an oral history of American comics.
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cultureFrançois Schuiten Interview
It might have been the insomnia that sparked it all. Legendary Belgian cartoonist and illustrator François Schuiten recalls that he couldn’t sleep when...
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culture‘The Last of the Mohicans’: Michael Mann’s Riveting Love Story as the Formation of American Identity
After a string of successes on television, having made a name for himself on projects such as Starsky and Hutch> and Police Story, Michael Mann ...
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cultureTake It to the Limit One More Time: Michael Mann’s ‘Miami Vice’
Michael Mann’s 2006 big screen revamp of 1980s groundbreaking TV show Miami Vice (Brandon Tartikoff, NBC’s entertainment president scribbled “MTV cops” ...
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culture‘Manhunter’—’Horror Implied, as Opposed to Explained…That’s Michael Mann’s Strength (Will)’
In 1986, Michael Mann’s 'Manhunter' elevated schlock-horror to a thoughtful, stylised, forensically psychological level, introducing the concept of a ...
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cultureScorsese On the Ropes: The ‘Kamikaze’ Film-Making of ‘Raging Bull’
Raging Bull is not your dad’s boxing movie. It’s certainly not a story of conventional redemption or hope overcoming the odds...
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cultureDownwards Is the Only Way Forwards: Welcome to David Fincher’s ‘The Game’
Twenty-one years on, David Fincher’s The Game (1997) has come to be seen as a prescient, schadenfreude look at the gulf between us and the “one ...
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culture‘Heat’: Michael Mann’s Meticulous Masterpiece of Both Style and Substance That Transcends Genre
“Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner."
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cultureLife And Death In A Northern Town: Mike Hodges’ ‘Get Carter’
Tim Pelan examines Mike Hodges's classic 1972 British crime movie, 'Get Carter'
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culture‘Goodfellas’ at 30: Martin Scorsese’s Anthropological Goodlife Through a Lens
As far back as I can remember, director Martin Scorsese has been synonymous with wiseguys, mooks, goombahs, and spin-on-a-dime funny-how guys delivering...
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culture‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’: Lucas and Spielberg’s Epitome of Action-Adventure Films Still Waiting to Be Surpassed
Trying to catch a break from all the Star Wars hype, in the spring of 1977, George Lucas was resting on a Hawaiian beach, building sand castles with ...
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culture70s Paranoia Thrillers … and why we need them now more than ever
It was never going to last that long. Golden ages rarely do. But for a while there in the 1970s that’s what we had.
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cultureHandMade Crime
An exploration of the independent mavericks, HandMade Films, that gave us some of the most iconic British crime films of the 1970s and 1980s.
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cultureThelma Schoonmaker Breaks Down ‘Raging Bull’
It’s said that a movie is made three times: once through a script, once on set, and finally in the…
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factThe Last Western
Rone Tempest's gripping true crime story of a Puerto Rico-born undercover officer gunned down by a white Wyoming lawman in 1978
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cultureHow Robert Altman’s Anti-Western Classic ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ Aged Like Fine Wine
The legendary director Robert Altman was given an Academy Honorary Award in 2006, “in recognition of a career that has repeatedly reinvented...
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culture‘Tomorrow Never Happens’ – Oliver Reed’s Blunt Instrument of Revenge in Douglas Hickox’s ‘Sitting Target’
By the tail end of the 1960s, the Hollywood studio system was in the doldrums. The British film industry...
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culturePM Entertainment: Dude Perfect
The rise of the VHS supergiants, PM Entertainment, and their everlasting stamp on the genre of action films
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cultureFURS BY FENDI: A Taxonomy of Fashion Horror
Writer and film critic Sean Witzke introduces readers to the glamorously unsettling world of the fashion horror genre.
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culturePsycho Pension Qu’est-ce que c’est: Richard Donner’s ‘Lethal Weapon’ Is a Real Live Wire
You think I’m crazy? You call me crazy, you think I’m crazy? You wanna see crazy?…
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cultureJudge Dredd: The Devil You Know
Chloe Maveal provides a comparative look into Judge Dredd as a predictor of unchecked contemporary police brutality.
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cultureA Michael Kaluta cover gallery
When I look at Kaluta's artwork for comic book covers the thing that always strikes me is that the work doesn't...
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cultureScorpio: Michael Winner’s Cynical Thriller About A Spy With A Death Wish
Burt Lancaster is one of the greatest actors to ever appear in films, but he didn’t hold all his work in high esteem. He is said to have looked down...
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culture‘Deep Cover’ (1992): Bill Duke’s Exhilarating and Aesthetically Poignant Undercover-Cop Thriller
The year 1990 saw the publication of a non-fiction book entitled Deep Cover: The Inside Story of How DEA Infighting...
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culture‘Hard Times’: Walter Hill’s Violent Directorial Debut About Survival During the Great Depression
American filmmaker Walter Hill is famous and revered for both his action movies and the fact that he revived the...
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cultureHow John Schlesinger’s Homeless and Lonesome ‘Midnight Cowboy’ Rode His Way to the Top and Became the First and Only X-rated Movie to Win a Best Picture Oscar
A friend of mine, an American painter living in London, had read the book and suggested that I look at it. I read it and thought ‘If I’m going to make a...
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culture‘The Conversation’: Francis Ford Coppola’s Paranoia-Ridden Tale of Surveillance, Guilt and Isolation
The idea originated in a conversation between me and Irving Kirshner. We were talking about espionage, and he said that most people thought the safest ...
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culture“You there! What day is it?”: Why The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Ultimate Holiday Film
You can keep your White Christmas and Holiday Inn!
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culture‘Minority Report’: Steven Spielberg’s Proof that You Don’t Need to Sacrifice Substance to Produce Spectacle
The beginning of Minority Report, Steven Spielberg’s thrilling sci-fi noir from 2002, is closely connected to another science fiction classic...
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culture“Game Over, Man”: The Alien Franchise as Working Class Horror
An essay exploring the ways in which the Alien movie franchise exposes the horrors of the working class.
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culture‘Magnolia’: Paul Thomas Anderson’s Absorbing Mosaic of Compassion, Humanity and the Importance of Forgiveness
In 1997, an ambitious 26-year-old called Paul Thomas Anderson made Boogie Nights, his sophomore directing effort…
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cultureSidney Lumet and Paddy Chayevsky’s ‘Network’: The Grim Prophecy that Was Once Just Brilliant Satire
What excited the general public and outraged horrified television moguls as a razor-sharp satire in 1976, a film promoted as outrageous, hasn’t lost its...
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cultureDuct Soup: The Daffy, Dystopian Design Nightmare of Terry Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’
Brazil is the demented, surreal flip-side of George Orwell’s dystopian warning—"1984 1/2" was director Terry Gilliam’s originally…
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cultureParadise Lost: How Martin Scorsese’s ‘Casino’ Charts the Rise and Fall of a Criminal Empire
This story has to be on a big canvas. There’s no sense in my getting Bob De Niro and Joe Pesci and making a 90-minute picture about only one aspect ...
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culture‘Black Sunday’ (1977): John Frankenheimer’s Overwhelmingly Suspenseful Terrorist Film
The late American director John Frankenheimer began his career when the Cold War was at its peak...
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culturePaul Schrader’s ‘Hardcore’ (1979): A Gripping Juxtaposition of Religious Rigidity and Unabashed Sexuality
American director and screenwriter Paul Schrader grew up in a strict Calvinist family in Grand Rapids, Michigan...
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culture‘Point Blank’ – John Boorman’s Amalgamation of American, British and French Filmmaking Styles
The stories behind director John Boorman and screenwriter Alexander Jacobs brilliant retelling of Donald Westlake's THE HUNTER
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culture‘JFK’: Oliver Stone’s Emotionally Accurate and Masterfully Crafted Trip Down the Rabbit Hole
“I think I was always controversial, provocative. But I can’t help it. I have to go there. It’s my nature. It’s my father’s nature, too..."
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culture‘Sweet Smell of Success’: A Visceral and Vicious Depiction of the Evil that Power-Hungry Men Do
There’s an old rule among directors that you see a film in its totality about four times. The first is when you really decide you love the story and you...
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culture‘Network’: Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky’s Gruesome Prophecy Turned Reality
Once it opened, everybody kept saying, ‘Oh, what a brilliant satire.’ But Paddy and I always said, ‘This isn’t satire, it’s sheer reportage.’
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cultureFincher’s Zodiac: A Suspenseful and Thrilling Combination of Police Procedural and Newspaper Film That Masterfully Chronicles the Progression of Obsession
Robert Graysmith knew he was a guy on the sidelines of this story. He wanted to be a part of it and he made himself a part of it. He was doing it on his...
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cultureAll the Right Hardware: An Appreciation of Denys Cowan
An appreciation of the extensive and incredibly beautiful career of artist Denys Cowan.
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culture“No Room For Darryl”: Re-Examining ‘Scanners’ In The Digital Age
With today marking 40 years of Cronenberg's iconic "Scanners", essayist Kim Winters takes a look at how it has aged in a contemporary digital atmosphere.
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cultureIn Memoriam: Honoring The Comic Creators We Lost in 2020
With 2020 coming to a close, it's time to take a look back on this year and pay homage to the incredible creators we've lost along the way.
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cultureLike an Animal: Fascism and Desire in Bertolucci’s ‘The Conformist’
Writer and critic Sean Witzke discusses the themes of fascism, sexuality, and desire in Bernardo Bertolucci’s iconic 1970 film *The Conformist*
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cultureEddie Little: Paradise Lost
The night of November 2nd, 1998. The El Cadiz Apartments, Los Angeles. Thief-turned-writer Eddie Little is worried sick; he’s convinced he can hear a ...
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cultureThe House Wins: Brian De Palma’s ‘Snake Eyes’
“Believe Everything Except Your Eyes.” This arguably meaningless phrase was one of five similarly-themed taglines concocted to promote Brian De Palma’s ...
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cultureThe Artistic Triumph of Sir Alan Parker’s Still Beating ‘Angel Heart’
Sven Mikulec looks at the history and legacy of Alan Parker's 'Angel Heart'
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cultureLived All Our Best Times Left With the Worst: Christopher Nolan’s ‘Memento’
Fractured narrative, skewed perception, compressed timelines—director/writer Christopher Nolan won’t lead his audience in a straight line…
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cultureZombie Himbos and Vatican Hunks: The Joy of British Horror Comics
With Halloween just around the corner, NeoText explores the versatility, humor, and perfectly grotesque visuals of British horror comics.
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cultureRobert Altman’s ‘McCabe & Mrs. Miller’ is one of the most beautiful and emotionally stirring westerns American cinema ever produced
Confidently riding the waves generated by his highly successful satirical black comedy M*A*S*H, Robert Altman easily secured a directing job…
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cultureThe Jukebox Existentialism of Stirling Silliphant
The interaction between and among human beings is the only story worth telling.
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cultureRichard Powers: The World of fFlar
An essay celebration of renowned sci-fi artist Richard Powers and the surrealist wonder of the fFlar universe.
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cultureThe Art of Creating Cages: A Conversation with Dave McKean
An interview and career retrospective with acclaimed storyteller and artist Dave McKean.
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cultureFincher’s ‘Zodiac’ Is Easily One Of The Best Thrillers Of The Millennium So Far
He paints with people, Jake Gyllenhaal said of David Fincher after the two had worked together on Zodiac. “It’s tough…
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cultureMore than 65 years since its release, Carol Reed’s ‘The Third Man’ is still a marvel to see, experience and learn from
Carol Reed’s 'The Third Man' might just be as visually stimulating as classic films get….
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culture‘The Friends of Eddie Coyle’: Peter Yates’ Crime Masterpiece that Chose to Rely on a Completely Different Kind of Spectacle
Published in January 1973, George V. Higgins’ crime novel The Friends of Eddie Coyle was well received by critics and the public, featuring a story ...
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cultureDracula Magazine: From Spain to London to Warren… and beyond
In 1972 a neophyte Spanish media company created a rare platform for artists to explore classic genre imagery with a sophisticated cinematic sensibility.
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culture‘American Gigolo’ (1980): Paul Schrader’s Character Study on Loneliness that Established Richard Gere as a Leading Man
While he was teaching screenwriting at the UCLA Film School, American director and screenwriter Paul Schrader got a character idea during one of his...
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cultureKing of New York (1990): Abel Ferrara’s Blood-Soaked Portrayal of New York City’s Underbelly
Long-time independent filmmaker Abel Ferrara was never one to pander to the expectations of either critics...
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culture‘Caliber 9’ (1972): Fernando Di Leo’s Intense Poliziottesco Film
During his film career that lasted from 1964 to 1985, Italian filmmaker Fernando Di Leo worked as a director...
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culture‘The Crying Game’: Neil Jordan’s Deeply Humane Story That Transcends Gender, Race and Nationality
The 1980s were an intense decade for Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan. He had made his directorial debut in 1982...
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culture‘Internal Affairs’ (1990): Mike Figgis’ First American Film that Proved to Be an Intense Crime Thriller
English director, screenwriter and composer Mike Figgis made his directorial debut in 1988 with Stormy...
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culture‘The Dead Zone’: Cronenberg’s Masterful Adaptation of a Stephen King Classic
Many a movie has been based on prolific writer Stephen King's works of fiction. And while quite a few of...
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cultureCelebrating 40 Years of ‘Flash Gordon’: An Intentionally Campy Space Opera that Became a Cult Classic
December 5th, 2020 will mark the 40th anniversary of a lavish space opera hitting US theaters and subsequently...
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culture‘Body Double’: Brian De Palma’s Uniquely Stylized Erotic Thriller that Pays Homage to Hitchcock
American director and screenwriter Brian de Palma, a leading member of the New Hollywood movement that lasted...
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culture‘Charley Varrick’ – The Last of the Independents
Don Siegal's follow up to *Dirty Harry*, an adaptation of John C. Reese's *The Looters,* and a masterclass in character-driven storytelling
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cultureCarol Reed’s ‘The Third Man’: How Orson Welles Stole a Show He Was Barely In
Filmmaker Carol Reed, hailed as one of the greatest U.K. directors, became famous in the late 1930s and 1940s with motion pictures such as Night Train ...
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cultureNo Adam for Eve: The Quiet History of Lesbian Pulp Fiction
A look into the history behind lesbian and bisexual themes in mid-century pulp fiction paperbacks.
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cultureFront Row Center With Howard Chaykin: Scott Phillips
Howard Chaykin digs into the deep-seeded influences that fuel Scott Phillips' suburban noir stories.
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cultureIn The Shadow Of The Crane
Cinematographer Karim Hussain csc's appreciation of the Louma Crane