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Revisited: Bradley Cooper’s Triumphant A Star is Born is an Instant Classic

Occasionally you see a movie and immediately know it's up there with the all-time greats. This is one of those rare times.

December 24, 2018

Bradley Cooper’s Triumphant A Star is Born is an Instant Classic

Occasionally you see a movie and immediately know it's up there with the all-time greats. This is one of those rare times.

August 31, 2018

Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Moment by Moment

A bomb on its release, this John Travolta-Lily Tomlin camp feminist melodrama can be mined deeply for covert clues about its two stars' sexuality.

October 25, 2016

Kat Candler (Hellion) Talks Xavier Dolan’s Mommy

The Texas filmmaker writes a letter to the director of her favorite film of 2015.

January 19, 2016

Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) Talks Todd Haynes’ Carol

A recent convert to the fiction of Patricia Highsmith is transported back to his past by a spot-on adaptation of her once-scandalous second novel.

November 24, 2015