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1. The Ford Pinto, Cujo (1983) and Top Secret! (1984) 
The Ford Pinto, the subcompact economy car and running…

Released under the relatively new Artsploitation label, with a softcore/sadcore cover and a racy tagline (“Sex isn’t…

1. Louie’s wasted afternoon: Louie, “Dogpound” (2010)
It isn’t easy to visually replicate the singular, internal…

NOT OPTIONAL takes a quick weekly look at five essential releases, some recent, some not.

QUOTES OF THE WEEK

Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: 42 has…

“In one way or another, I have been waiting for the apocalypse all of my life.” —Opening line, Roger Ebert’s review…

The Jackie Robinson biopic 42 operates in a box inside of a box—and not the batter’s box, either, because that would…

Watching a Terrence Malick movie means being reminded that we live in nature, among the trees and other animals,…

In the decades since he testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952, naming names in the…

New On DVD And Blu-ray: April 9, 2013

Lest anyone think movie box-office is a zero sum game, it was good news all around this weekend for studio and…

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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by a new movie coming out that week. This week: Trance ha…

Film critic Roger Ebert passed away today at age 70, following a recurrence of the cancer he had fought so bravely…

When Shane Carruth came out of nowhere—nowhere being the suburbs of Dallas, Texas—to win the 2004 Grand Jury Prize…

The signature shot of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead movies has a dark force careening through a Grimm forest at breakneck…

Over the course of two months straddling 1957 and 1958, Charles Starkweather, a 19-year-old garbage collector,…

New On DVD And Blu-Ray: April 2, 2013

In Commentary Tracks Of The Damned, we look to the commentary track to glean further insight on a failed film, be it…