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The Addiction

August 17, 2026

The Guardian’s chief film critic Peter Bradshaw named it one of the greatest films of all time. Tokyo Story. Paths of Glory. Raging Bull. Andrei…

A Midnight Clear

August 16, 2026

A whole generation of American film, packed into one small 1992 movie not enough people saw. The director was Keith Gordon, who played the bullied…

A Nightmare on Elm Street

August 13, 2026

In the late 1970s, healthy young men began dying in their sleep. Mostly Hmong refugees, they would go to bed and just not wake up,…

Carnival of Souls

August 12, 2026

He made workplace-safety reels, driver’s-ed shorts, educational filmstrips. He drove past a rotting lakeside pavilion and could not stop picturing dead figures dancing inside it.…

Showgirls 2: Penny’s from Heaven

August 11, 2026

In the notorious 1995 flop Showgirls, there was a background stripper named Penny Slot. Most people forgot about her the moment the credits rolled. Rena…

Sisters

August 10, 2026

He was haunted by a story in Life magazine about a pair of conjoined twins. In the photo the two girls sat side by side,…

I Origins

August 9, 2026

This was never meant to be the film. It was supposed to be the backstory. After Fox Searchlight acquired Another Earth, co-writer Mike Cahill sold…

Heathers

August 8, 2026

It was his first screenplay and he had exactly one director in mind. Only Stanley Kubrick could pull off a three-hour black comedy about a…

Dark Days

August 7, 2026

They built a village beneath the streets of Manhattan. Shacks of scavenged wood, wired for electricity tapped off the city grid, furnished with salvaged couches…

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair

August 5, 2026

Alone in her attic bedroom at night, a teenage girl pricks her finger, smears the blood across her laptop screen, and says the words three…

Equinox

August 4, 2026

Four young people find an ancient cursed book in the woods and are attacked by a horde of demons – more than a decade before…

Another Earth

August 3, 2026

She graduated valedictorian at Georgetown and turned down a job at Goldman Sachs to make movies. Hollywood saw a cute blonde, decorative, interchangeable. She decided…

The Ramen Girl

August 1, 2026

Brittany Murphy told her director she had only ever been hired to play cute or crazy. She doubted she could do anything else. So they…

Executive Action

July 30, 2026

It was the first major film to dramatize a conspiracy behind the Kennedy assassination. It was pulled from theaters within a month and not seen…

Welcome to the Dollhouse

July 28, 2026

He made his first feature for a studio, lost control of it, and hated the result so much he spent years telling people not to…