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Dec 20, 2024 | 
avclub.com | Greg Cwik
In 1974—the year Richard Nixon resigned in the wake of Watergate, and just one year after the United States withdrew from the Vietnam War, having wasted 19 years, five months, four weeks, one day, and nearly 60,000 American lives—confidence in and trust of the United States government was in a shambles. Facing failure for what many perceived to be the first time, average Joe Americans found their spirits wavering, like a shed of rotting wood about to suffer a storm.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
floodmagazine.com | Greg Cwik
Aided by creative consultant Joe Dante, NBC’s single-season sci-fi/horror series offered the same philosophical phantasmagoria and small-town charm of Twin Peaks to much younger viewers. “...but small towns have long memories and pass their horrors down ceremonially from generation to generation.”— Stephen King, Salem’s LotIn recent years, children’s TV has grown creatively etiolated.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Greg Cwik |Luke Gorham
Brad Dourif, known for his madman characters and many cinematic iniquities, is, it’s easy to forget, capable of staggering eclecticism. His career, unimpeachable, daring, perfectly weird, is based on an non-judgmental approach. He’s taken the shape of men both strange and normal, believable and absurd, painfully human and grotesque, resulting in a diverse array of eccentric and down-to-earth performances that are histrionic and subtle, heroes and villains, lucid and lunatic, scary and scared.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
inreviewonline.com | Greg Cwik |Luke Gorham
Credit: Paramount Pictures Published as part of Francis Ford Coppola: As Big As Possible.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
pastemagazine.com | Greg Cwik
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Greg Cwik
“Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads.” –Harold Bloom * Article continues after advertisement When you think of Friends, the perennial favorite of young people since 1994, an eternal bastion of comfort for innumerable viewers for thirty years now, living in perpetuity on network television and streaming, you think, probably, of sarcasm-laced banter in living rooms and coffee houses, Clinton-era network TV...
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Aug 23, 2024 | 
floodmagazine.com | Greg Cwik
With his American remake of his own 1989 action classic The Killer hitting streaming this weekend, we look back on the only theme more prominent than excessive bloodshed in the director’s dense filmography.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
floodmagazine.com | Greg Cwik
In the 1990 film Presumed Innocent, Harrison Ford’s Rusty Sabich is an ethical Assistant District Attorney—one of those rare genuine good guys just trying his best to do the right thing, to use his power to improve the world, a family man with eyes heavy from the weight of life and the horrible things that can happen in it—and he’s been accused of murdering a female colleague.
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May 29, 2024 | 
floodmagazine.com | Greg Cwik
Newly restored by Criterion, the 1960 psychological thriller has taken on a life of its own after serving the role of Psycho’s black-sheep sibling upon its initial release. Mark (Carl Boehn), the subject of 1960’s Peeping Tom, photographs women for his profession, as well as for his hobby. He’s a foreigner who’s off in a way you can’t quite articulate: Is it his accent? The awkward look of discomfort tugging slightly at his mouth, eyes ashine with secrets?
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May 22, 2024 | 
floodmagazine.com | Greg Cwik
“Life After Cancellation” is an ongoing column examining TV series that were removed from the air after a season or two, which have taken on new life on streaming (licitly or otherwise)—for better or for worse. Find more of the column’s articles here. Miami Vice, a stylish cop show steeped in pastels and thrumming with the bass-and-synth sounds of ’80s pop music, is the coolest TV show ever made.
