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Forget Sweeney Todd—the original Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
is the most disturbing film musical ever made. Those dead-eyed Oompa
Loompas? Gene Wilder playing Wonka as a psychotic dand
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In a recent article for The Atlantic, writer Alan Siegel told America it needs to “get over” Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.
His argument is the film, which turns a quarter-century old this year,
is
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Whatever the mystery menace turns out to be in J.J. Abrams’ Super 8,
I hope the director took some lessons from producer Steven Spielberg on
how to maximize the big reveal. Of all his abilities as
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It’s been a big year for spaghetti Westerns—or at least,
tributes to them. Gore Verbinski paid homage in his bizarre kiddie flick
Rango, Community spoofed them in its season finale, and
Danger
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An unemployed man-child who wears tight
pants and is obsessed with his bicycle? Sounds like a typical
Portlander. No surprise, then, to see Pee-wee’s Big Adventure
receive the Lebowski Fest treat
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Despite Quentin
Tarantino’s reputation as a kind of career defibrillator, nobody ever
mentions the inverse trick he pulled with Robert De Niro in Jackie Brown:
recognizing a descending catatonia
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Sixteen Candles doesn’t
get the respect it deserves. Of all the films in John Hughes’ lauded
’80s teen-flick canon, the epic saga of Samantha Baker (Molly
Ringwald)—who gives her polka-dot
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Everybody knows the iconic walking bass
line in Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Were Made for Walkin’.” But do you
know who wrote the part? Though they played on hundreds of
standards—from t
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Ain’t it funny that two of the stronger films out of the 2010 gate are westerns? Sure, Rango and Meek’s Cutoff couldn’t
be more distinct in tempo—Gore Verbinski’s cartoon is frantic where
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Taking movie karaoke to its logical conclusion, the ’80s Movie Anthem Sing-Along cuts
out the pesky interruptions of dialogue and plot: It’s one long string
of synth-heavy bombast. Compiled by t
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