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Needless to say, this article contains spoilers for the Twin Peaks TV series as well as the film. When Twin Peaks ended in 1991, it went out on 50 of the strangest, most wonderfully obtuse minutes of...

When Neill Blomkamp burst onto the scene in 2009 with his blisteringly brilliant debut film District 9, he brought someone else with him: actor Sharlto Copley, whose entirely improvised performance as nebbish...

In 2017, it’s increasingly difficult to remember a time when superhero movies weren’t one of the biggest pop-culture phenomena in history. Way back at the beginning of the millennium, however, the genre...

With Steven Spielberg at the helm and a ridiculously strong cast of Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Bob Hoskins, and Julia Roberts, Hook should have been the standout Hollywood success story of 1991. Instead,...

Mad Hatter: Have I gone mad? Alice: I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are. Nearly 150 years after Lewis Carroll published Alice’s Adventures in...

The late Nora Ephron was the undisputed queen of the romantic comedy. Her screenplays for such classics as When Harry Met Sally and You’ve Got Mail were sharp and insightful, and perfectly encapsulated the...

It is hard to argue that Jack Reacher should be given a second chance. This is not because the film doesn’t deserve greater recognition and a wider audience, which it most definitely does; instead, the...

For modern audiences, there is something delightful about the technology of the ‘80s and ‘90s on film. Whether it’s a brick-sized mobile phone or impossible operating systems, the mix of scorn and...

Elysium was the kind of movie that had a lot going against it from the moment it was announced. South African director Neill Blomkamp's debut, District 9, came out of nowhere and stunned critics and...

Why is X-Men Origins: Wolverine considered the bastard child of the blockbusting X-Men? Although it is far from the best X-Men film available, there is nothing to suggest that Origins needs relegating from...

"I call you 'Snotface' because I love you, and I love you because guys always love the crazy chicks." - Drop Dead Fred Phoebe Cates (Gremlins) is Lizzie Cronin and she’s just lost her husband, her money,...

There is a regularly cited quotation from Woody Allen that goes like this: “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work I want to achieve it though not dying.” Granted, NYC’s comic prince...

Here's an opinion: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is better than The Temple of Doom. Gasp! Cries of "sacrilege!" ring out. Fights break out on zeppelins. Nazi faces melt off. Alright,...

About halfway through Superman Returns, the Man of Steel says to Lois Lane: “You wrote that the world doesn’t need a saviour, but every day I hear people crying for one.” It’s pretty deep, and taps...