Steven Spielberg 's most complex and stunning film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind , has been re-released in theaters for its 40th anniversary. It's still a marvelous masterpiece, a fascinating counterpoint to its contemporary cousin, Star Wars .
One in a series of ten posts reprinting HILOBROW friend Alexandra Molotkow's profiles of figures who've loomed large in her personal pantheon. Sharon Tate was murdered in the early hours of August 9, 1969.
Don't get tricked. For the second season in a row, FX's "American Horror Story" will sneak up on you in early September, rather than in the trick-or-treat month of October .
Far from condescending to salt-of-the-earth folks, as its critics charge, David Lynch's rebooted masterwork maintains an uncanny, sympathetic eye for those folks' hopes, dreams, struggles, and triumphs. So goes the tagline of Dr. AMP's Great American Radio Show, an archetypal entry in the genre of ostensibly conservative but really schizo-libertarian local talk radio.
Ryan Phillippe has opened up about his ongoing struggle with depression and hopes talking about the subject will make it ''a lot less taboo''. Speaking to Stellar magazine, the 42-year-old Cruel Intentions actor said: ''I have no shame.
We're in the midst of a television renaissance right now. Between cable, network, premium channels, and streaming services there is no shortage of fantastic content being produced.
Women directors have long been behind some of the most thoughtful, genre-bending horror films of the oeuvre, and now a team is working on Black Rose Anthology , a one-hour TV horror series for CW that will be written and directed entirely by women. The anthology series arrives at the CW courtesy of Drew Barrymore and Nancy Juvonen's Flower Films and co-showrunner of Scream: The TV Series Jill Blotevogel, who will pen the pilot episode, according to Deadline .
The coolest item from the film world this week was delivered courtesy of my favourite Canadian director , Denis Villeneuve. In an effort to get us extra amped up about the release of his awesome-looking Blade Runner 2049 in October, Villeneuve released the first of three prequel shorts that have been created to catch fans up on what's happened in the film's world between 2019 and 2049, where Denis'sequel will take place.
Forty years after "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" first played on the big screen, director Steven Spielberg's drama about aliens making contact with Midwesterners is returning to theaters. And it's bringing Muncie with it.