10 Movies That Could Have Been Rated NC-17
Shame, a candid and powerful look at sexual addiction from director Steve McQueen (no, another Steve McQueen) is out in limited release tomorrow, and as we reported last month, it’s going out with the...
View ArticleVideo Essay: “And Introducing… Famous Faces in Their Film Debuts”
This week’s must-see DVD for film fans is Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, Alex Stapleton’s wickedly enjoyable documentary profile of Roger Corman, the B-movie master whose exploitation...
View ArticleWhat’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office
Today at Flavorpill, we were amused that it took a team of MIT scientists to get ketchup out of a bottle. We read what the Walkmen had to say about their latest, Heaven. We saw new Banksy. We got up to...
View Article10 Utterly Unconvincing Movie Couples
Our favorite of this week’s new theatrical releases is Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, Lorene Scafaria’s end-of-the-world comedy that deftly transcends what could have been a one-joke...
View ArticleArtwork Inspired by the Films of Martin Scorsese
From Taxi Driver to Raging Bull to GoodFellas, few filmmakers have turned out as many influential movies as the great Martin Scorsese — and, come to find out, he’s also inspired plenty of artists from...
View ArticleExclusive Supercut: Actors’ Pre-Fame Roles in Woody Allen Movies
This just in from the Mostly Unobserved Anniversaries Department — yesterday marked 20 years since the release of Manhattan Murder Mystery, Woody Allen’s cracklingly entertaining 1993 reunion with...
View ArticleThe 30 Harshest Actor-on-Actor Insults in History
In the current ultra-managed, publicist-controlled, sound-byte-driven media atmosphere, you don’t get to hear stars really speaking their minds anymore — at least, not about anything fun, like how they...
View Article10 Terrible American Remakes of Great Foreign Films
This week, the Criterion Collection unveiled a new Blu-ray edition of The Vanishing, George Sluizer’s critically acclaimed and bluntly effective 1988 Dutch thriller. But it’s also a film with a tainted...
View ArticleVegas on Mars: Recalling ‘Total Recall’ 25 Years Later
Philip K. Dick has enjoyed a surprisingly active and commercial afterlife considering the decidedly non-commercial nature of his output and the fact that, from a sales perspective, he was never more...
View Article10 SXSW Movies We Can’t Wait to See
AUSTIN, TEXAS: Yes, it’s that time of year again. The SXSW Film Festival (and the larger SXSW Conferences and Festivals) kicks off today here in Austin, and for the sixth straight year, Flavorwire is...
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