The movie chimed with the dark 1970s zeitgeist, but it also prefigured the 21st-century America of Maga.
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Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver turns 50 this month. It is widely regarded as one of the most important American films. It is also one of the most troubling.
New series from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand dominate this month’s suggestions for what you should stream next.
Revisiting a disease that affected a million people might provide answers we need for the future.
Here are six examples (among many) in which De Niro’s roles embody a sense of isolation, both visually and thematically.
Heat 2, the literary sequel to Michael Mann’s classic cops-and-robbers film, is weird. Would it stand alone as a novel? Possibly not. But reading it is an incredibly pleasurable experience.
They’re associated with fake news and celebrity porn videos but there are some unexpected upsides to these slippery clips.
The Intern is a film ostensibly about gendered and generational role reversal that quickly turns into a treatise about how much even successful young women still have to learn (from old men).
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