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“A Quiet Place for Elio”
Photographer and director Neil Krug takes a personal look at the work of Academy award-winning director Elio Petri
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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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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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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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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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cultureSam Kieth: Art, Cruelty, and The Part of Us That Escapes
For an entire generation of comic readers, few things are as weird, touching, and satisfying as the art and storytelling of Sam Kieth.
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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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cultureHoward 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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cultureAn Interview with Eddie Campbell, Part One: The Years Have (Digitally Colorized) Pants
An interview with the incomparable comics creator Eddie Campbell.
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cultureAlan Moore is Pretty Hilarious, Actually.
Despite a reputation of emotionally intense titles, Watchmen creator Alan Moore's career is far funnier than audiences give him credit for
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cultureWhere Are All The Chanukah Comics?!
Writer and critic Gregory Paul Silber explores the Jewish-American influence on the comics industry and ironic lack of Chanukah comics during the holidays
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cultureOur Doppelgängers, Ourselves
Here’s an elevator pitch. You’re you, right? You are who you are, doing the stuff you do. But let’s say there’s another you out there, an exact double...
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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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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‘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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cultureDavid Mamet’s ‘Spartan’: Live by the Code, Film by the Code
A contemporary American renaissance man, David Mamet has had an incredibly rich and fulfilling career spanning...
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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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cultureRats In the Attic: William Friedkin’s ‘The Exorcist’
Forty-five years after its powerful debut, and with all the attendant publicity, analysis and second-hand knowledge, from satire to theological debate,…
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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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cultureSic Transit Garber’s Subway: ‘The Taking of Pelham One Two Three’
Only the amazing reaction that that picture has gotten, because at the time I was dreadfully unhappy with the fact that I was going to be doing another ...
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cultureGiving ‘Em The Biz: The Seminal Art of Simon Bisley
A boldly satisfying combination of chaotic line work and velvety paints, artist Simon Bisley has been reinventing comic art for decades.
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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?…