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How I Won the War

August 20, 2026

The wardrobe department gave him a pair of round wire-rimmed spectacles. He wore them for the rest of his life. The Beatles had just played…

Force Majeure

August 15, 2026

A perfect Swedish family sits down to lunch on a restaurant terrace, high in the French Alps. Sun, snow, two blond kids. Then an avalanche…

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…

Three Giant Men

July 29, 2026

Spider-Man is a violent psychopath who runs a counterfeiting operation in Istanbul. He is opposed by Captain America, who has no shield, and a Mexican…

Map of the Human Heart

July 27, 2026

He was hired to make the third Alien film. His vision was a planet made of wood: a monastery in space and an order of…

The Return

July 23, 2026

This “Odyssey” came out in 2024, starred two Oscar nominees (one winner), and played to near-empty theaters despite critical acclaim. While Iphigenia (1977) gave us…

Hatching

July 22, 2026

She runs a family blog. Every post shows the perfect home, the perfect marriage, the perfect daughter. Her followers do not see that her twelve-year-old…

The Road Home

July 20, 2026

One year before Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000), 19-year-old dance student Zhang Ziyi made her theatrical film debut for the most acclaimed director in China.…

Krakatit

July 19, 2026

The novel, about an explosive force powerful enough to destroy the world, was written in 1922. The film was made in 1948, after World War…

Iphigenia

July 18, 2026

In The Odyssey, Odysseus spends ten years trying to get home from Troy. In 1977, a Greek director filmed the part of the story Hollywood…

Lady Snowblood

July 17, 2026

A broken woman serves life in a Meiji-era prison. The men who destroyed her and her family are still out there. She gives birth on…

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

July 16, 2026

With the Screen Actors Guild threatening to strike, a British newspaper introduced cinema’s newest leading lady as “tall, attractive, and guaranteed not to strike.” Four…

The Valley

July 15, 2026

For over fifty years, Pink Floyd fans have loved OBSCURED BY CLOUDS, the warm, hypnotic record that arrived just before DARK SIDE OF THE MOON.…

Frankenstein: The True Story

July 13, 2026

It was written by Christopher Isherwood, whose Berlin stories became CABARET, working with Don Bachardy, the man he shared his life with. Like the Berlin…

Young Einstein

July 10, 2026

In 2000, he sued the search engine Yahoo! for using his name. He lost. Yahoo Serious – his legal name – grew out a shock…