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Film Review: “Inglourious Basterds” (updated for Blu-ray)
Quentin Tarantino's latest arrives in theaters today, and Lance Berry has been dying to tell you all about it
Read More »DVD Review: “Nikkatsu Noir,” Japan Gone Wild
Few genres are as absorbent as film noir. Science fiction (Blade Runner), horror (Seven), and high school movies (Brick) have soaked up the world-weary, hard-boiled attitudes and atmospherics of Double Indemnity, The Big Heat,
Read More »The Bigger Picture: The Big Three, Part Two
Last week I began a three-part series about the three biggest movie taboos, at least in American cinema — the things we seem to often have both a disdain for and a sick fetishistic
Read More »Film Review: “Gran Torino”
Gran Torino finally opened to wide release this weekend, and rapidly earned the number one spot at the box office. It deserves every single dollar it’s made. Many have been calling it a type
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