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Looney Tunes: Collector’s Vault, Vol. 3
3+ hour, 46+ min ago (294+ words) Midwest Film Journal Looney Tunes: Collector’s Vault, Vol. 3 Last year, Warner Archive re-released the first two volumes of the original Looney Tunes Platinum Collection series, which function as a restored “greatest hits” of the classic cartoons. There are four overall…...
Arrow: Identity 4K
1+ week, 3+ day ago (253+ words) By 2003, the trend of head-reeling third-act thriller twists introduced by The Sixth Sense was generally in palliative care. But the modest spring hit Identity infused it with new life, partially because its change-ups might be seen coming in a film…...
Cult Epics: P.O. Box Tinto Brass 4K UHD
1+ week, 1+ day ago (785+ words) Midwest Film Journal Cult Epics: P.O. Box Tinto Brass 4K UHD P.O. Box Tinto Brass is an artifact of a brand at its zenith. Brass’s storied career had entered its second era with The Key in 1983, an erotic drama that mixed character and…...
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
1+ week, 3+ day ago (480+ words) The subtext behind horror movies, and slasher movies in particular, has long been a favorite fodder for academics, pseudointellectuals and genre fans alike. Jane Schoenbrun’s Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma might just capture the essence of the debate…...
Coming Around Again: The Lost World: Jurassic Park / Jurassic Park III
2+ week, 1+ day ago (468+ words) The Lost World: Jurassic Park, a 1997 science-fiction adventure directed by Steven Spielberg, written by David Koepp (based on Michael Crichton’s novel The Lost World), and starring Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Moore, Pete Postlethwaite, Arliss Howard, Richard Attenborough, Vince Vaughn, Vanessa Lee…...
On Criterion: Harlan County, USA & American Dream
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1036+ words) Midwest Film Journal On Criterion: Harlan County, USA & American Dream Filmmaker Barbara Kopple’s documentary about the 1973 Brookside miners’ strike, Harlan County, USA is an unmatched look at the context and complexities of the waning days of America’s mid-20th century labor…...
Happy Valley: Don???t Say Good Luck
2+ week, 3+ day ago (995+ words) Happy Valley: Don’t Say Good Luck Midwest Film Journal Lasciate ogne speranza, voi chi’intrate.How did it come to this? At the height of his power in Hollywood in 1999, Adam Sandler founded his own production company as a way to…...
MVD: Death Warrant 4K
2+ week, 4+ day ago (625+ words) Midwest Film Journal One unintentionally amusing delight of many Jean-Claude van Damme films is how they explain away his accent. The most hilarious might be 1990’s Death Warrant, in which JCVD’s Louis Burke is an undercover cop with the Royal…...
MVD: New York, New York 4K
2+ week, 4+ day ago (637+ words) Midwest Film Journal There’s a certain point in Martin Scorsese’s 1977 New York, New York where it could be written off as a modestly enjoyable curiosity of amplified artifice, the occasional indelible image and a more danceable dissolution of decorum per…...
Class Of 1996: Trainspotting: Thirty Years Later, Choosing Life Is Harder Than Ever
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1347+ words) Midwest Film Journal Class Of 1996: Trainspotting: Thirty Years Later, Choosing Life Is Harder Than Ever This month, Nick Rogers is handing Class of … duties over to special guest author Jim Hunter. As such, Nick’s usual rules do not apply … beyond…...