Archive for June, 2018
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June 5, 2018
Is Brian De Palma really going to make a Harvey Weinstein-inspired horror movie and set it at the Toronto International Film Festival? If so, it could help serve as a reminder of the need to fight sexual harassment and to empower women, says TIFF artistic director Cameron Bailey. "It reminds us of just the real importance and the urgency of making a change in the film industry when it comes to gender parity," Bailey told the Star.
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June 5, 2018
Thousands of years after civilization was destroyed by a cataclysmic event, humankind has adapted and a new way of living has evolved. Gigantic moving cities now roam the Earth, ruthlessly preying upon smaller traction towns.
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June 5, 2018
A two-part series at the Quad Cinema chronicles the cheaply made and formally rich horror movies that the UK's Hammer Films began producing in the 1950s. As New York edges closer to summer, the city's film fans have a rare opportunity to enjoy frights, shocks, and scares long before the perennial horror deluge that hits repertory cinemas every October.
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June 5, 2018
Remember that bit in Jurassic Park where the hunter guy is creeping up on a velociraptor, and then just when he thinks he's got it cold, another velociraptor pops up and takes him by surprise? Y'know: "Clever girl." Yeah, that bit.
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June 5, 2018
Last year, as I flew to Wellington, New Zealand to visit the set of Universal Pictures' Mortal Engines , I read the source novel by writer Philip Reeve . It was a brisk read, one intended for younger audiences, but I immediately understood why filmmaker Peter Jackson had been working for a decade to bring it to the big screen.
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June 5, 2018
This year, an exciting new instalment to the iconic horror franchise 'Halloween' will come, as Michael Myers makes his return to the big screen alongside one of the original Scream Queens, Jamie Lee Curtis. She'll be stepping back into the role of Laurie Strode - a character fans saw killed off in one of the many 'Halloween' sequels - and so it's been confirmed that this film will act as the true sequel to the original movie, scrubbing out any of the history written by flicks that came before it.
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June 5, 2018
Welcome to 4:3 & Forgotten - a column where I get to look back at TV terrors that scared adults across the limited airwaves of the 70s. This week's entry comes from arguably the most well-known film director in the world although he was nowhere near that designation back in 1972.
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June 4, 2018
Lynette Ray's mother enters her sleeping daughter's bedroom, where last night, they sat in front of the black-and-white TV to watch coverage of the last day of the California Democratic presidential primary, and of their hero Robert Kennedy. Lynnie's memories of President Kennedy's assassination five years earlier are vivid.
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June 4, 2018
Among hard-core Stanley Kubrick fans, the name Leon Vitali holds a kind of magic. He was the young British actor who made such an impression as Lord Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon and then turned around and became Kubrick's assistant for the rest of the director's career - the kind of job that would be considered a demotion on most other film sets.
