Michael Mann is a filmmaker everyone instinctively associates with crime thrillers like Thief (1981), Heat (1995), Collateral (2004), Miami Vice (2006), and Public Enemies (2009), and he is highly revered…
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At first glance, Walkabout looks like a simple survival adventure, but Nicolas Roeg has much more on his mind. His first solo film after co-directing Performance (1970) with Donald Cammell,…
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Best Hong Kong action movies: Watching Kenji Tanigaki’s The Furious (2025) recently sent me down the rabbit hole of Hong Kong action movies. The history of Hong Kong action cinema…
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Essential Westerns of the 2020s: The Western genre has always intrigued me because it is a potent reflection of America’s myths, contradictions, dreams, and changing identity beneath the familiar imagery…
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Many great directors are known for mastering a specific genre. Sergio Leone reinvented the Western, Alfred Hitchcock became the master of suspense, Wes Craven reshaped the landscape of 1980s horror…
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In the same way that Alfred Hitchcock was renowned as the “Master of Suspense,” Sergio Leone could be called the “Master of Tension” because of his unparalleled ability to create…
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