In one of my favorite bits of movie adaptation trivia, Sydney Pollack’s Three Days of…
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Ira Levin’s A Kiss Before Dying is one of my favorite slightly-forgotten suspense novels–tight, perfectly…
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Hollywood’s self-indulgent fascination with itself is a mixed bag, sometimes producing masterpieces and sometimes producing…
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A Simple Plan is a perfectly constructed, inexorable tragedy. Set in the dead of winter–starting…
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Well-crafted and inventive, this low-budget ($50,000) science fiction thriller makes the absolute most of its…
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Here at The Solute, we like to celebrate the work of master filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. …
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Between all the jokes about panty gunk and public urination, there’s a tenderness to Obvious…
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I’m currently in a lakeside cabin in the woods, and the setting–and the poor, inconsistent…
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My mom, she just never forgave me. I’d come home and tell her about something…
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Netflix’s documentary on the Fyre Festival will probably mostly be remembered for its odd Prestige/Illusionist double-act…
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