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Bombast: It’s War

By Nick Pinkerton
August 6, 2014
Useful fictions: the repulsions and attractions of war and its chronicles

Kaiju Shakedown: Huang Jianxin

By Grady Hendrix
August 5, 2014
Lost in the shuffle: recognizing the career of the underappreciated Fifth Generation director, who specialized in comedy

Rep Diary: Noel Black on Pretty Poison

By Ronald Bergan
August 4, 2014
An exclusive look back at the late Pretty Poison director

Review: Calvary

By Scout Tafoya
July 31, 2014
Of biblical importance: John Michael McDonagh's wry twist on passion-play intrigue

This Is Softcore: The Films of Radley Metzger

By Maitland McDonagh
July 31, 2014
Gentleman Radley: Mr. Metzger’s not-so-dirty pretty things

Film of the Week: Child of God

By Jonathan Romney
July 30, 2014
James Franco flirts with the abject and the elegiac in his portrait of a Southern Idiot Boy

Book Review: Alternative Movie Posters

By Adrian Curry
July 29, 2014
In case you missed it: Matthew Chojnacki's book shows that the art of the movie poster isn't dead

Kaiju Shakedown: Kinji Fukasaku

By Grady Hendrix
July 28, 2014
Birth of a nation: the classic yakuza pentalogy Battles Without Honor and Humanity as guide to postwar Japan

Review: Letter to Momo

By Allegra Frank
July 28, 2014
Creature feature: Hiroyuki Okiura's affecting Ghibli-esque anime wears its heart, and its influences, on its sleeve

Bombast: I Love Don Weis

By Nick Pinkerton
July 25, 2014
From fantasias to football ballets to M*A*S*H, the prolific career of director Don Weis