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Watch This: ‘Master of the Flying Guillotine’
Master of the Flying Guillotine is Taiwanese director Jimmy Wang Yu’s 1976 sequel to One Armed Boxer. Yu not only directed and wrote the film but starred as the main character, a martial arts master who is stalked by a blind assassin seeking revenge...
Little miracle
The child has no parents, no siblings, no relatives to speak of. He’s 11 years old, and what happened before the movie starts is...
Replicant? No, repli-can!
It is profoundly insightful and upsetting that both Blade Runners explicitly tackle the sins of civilizations built on slavery and sexual subjugation without including...
The world’s bigger than you think
There comes a moment, nearly three-quarters through the abysmally dull and bizarre Deadhead Miles — starring Alan Arkin as a long-haul truck driver —...
Tennis, anyone?
Politics, cinema and literature can lie, not sport. —Jean-Luc Godard
When one considers the history and scope of cinema, rarely do “how to” instruction videos...
Your vice is a locked room and only I have the...
Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie) lives for the 1960s. The clothes she wears, the music she listens to, even the movie posters on her bedroom wall...
Libraries: More than a building full of books
Located on Fifth Avenue, nestled between 40th and 42nd streets, the New York Public Library is as inspiring as it is imposing. Opened in...
Compulsive viewing
Let’s get this out of the way: If you’ve ever been in a car crash, The Road Movie is not for you. Much in...
Team Jarmusch
It’s amazing how popularity can change perception. When Stephanie Meyer’s 2005 novel, Twilight, cracked The New York Times bestseller list, vampires were brought back into the mainstream in a big way. Beginning in 2008, Meyer’s series was adapted into five movies and...
Ford v Ferrari
There’s a scene halfway through Ford
v Ferrari where Carrol Shelby (Matt Damon) takes Henry Ford II (Tracy
Letts) for a spin on the test-track in...
‘Sausage Party’ goes further than you think
The first 70-or-so minutes of Sausage Party is obscenely insightful, a hilariously raunchy contemplation of how spiritual beliefs can be ignorance-inducing and socially blinding....
The eternal charm of the go-getter: Part two
If great comedy must involve something beyond laughter,” film critic James Agee writes, “Lloyd was not a great comedian. If plain laughter is any...


















