1996 Archive

  • Some observations: -Perhaps more than any other horror film of the 1990s, Scream acts as a fun history lesson.  In chiding and recycling the slasher film tropes of yesteryear, Wes […]

    The Best Horror Movies of the 90s: Scream

    Some observations: -Perhaps more than any other horror film of the 1990s, Scream acts as a fun history lesson.  In chiding and recycling the slasher film tropes of yesteryear, Wes […]

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  • A dirge for River Phoenix. R.E.M. is here: the skew, the melody, the jangle. But it’s different; it’s Wagnerian, unlike (and better than) anything else they did. As Patti Smith […]

    R.E.M. – E-Bow The Letter

    A dirge for River Phoenix. R.E.M. is here: the skew, the melody, the jangle. But it’s different; it’s Wagnerian, unlike (and better than) anything else they did. As Patti Smith […]

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  • Exactly where the blame lays for albums “inspired” by movies or TV shows, it has a greedy pernicious feel to it. Until a check is waved under someone’s nose and […]

    Various Artists: Compilation – Songs In The Key Of X

    Exactly where the blame lays for albums “inspired” by movies or TV shows, it has a greedy pernicious feel to it. Until a check is waved under someone’s nose and […]

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  • Common wisdom states that a thriller is only as effective as its villain: Ultimately, the hero’s danger is only as real as his fear of what the bad guy can […]

    Extreme Measures

    Common wisdom states that a thriller is only as effective as its villain: Ultimately, the hero’s danger is only as real as his fear of what the bad guy can […]

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  • There’s the feeling, watching Takeshi Kitano’s films, that the man is either a cheerful pessimist, or he regards ambition as an inherent evil. Playfulness is the sole virtue of his […]

    Kids Return

    There’s the feeling, watching Takeshi Kitano’s films, that the man is either a cheerful pessimist, or he regards ambition as an inherent evil. Playfulness is the sole virtue of his […]

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  • People do silly things when the one thing they’re thinking about is the one thing they don’t want to think about. And people make odd bargains with themselves when circumstances […]

    Chungking Express

    People do silly things when the one thing they’re thinking about is the one thing they don’t want to think about. And people make odd bargains with themselves when circumstances […]

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