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No Escape

Who Killed Teddy Bear? 1965

Phoebe Cates’ father made an almost perfect, delightfully creepy psychopathia sexualis thriller that, until last year, practically nobody had seen. Why? It has Sal Mineo playing a psycho and Elaine Stritch playi...

7 days ago
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You Must Change His Life

I like it when a woman makes a radical life change without giving it much thought. Ride a Cockhorse, Summertime, Muriel’s Wedding. In these stories, they throw away everything about who they were and what they were doing just for a chance a...

14 days ago

Growing Pains

Together, 2025

It’s a bold film that can meld a popularized understanding of Plato’s symposium, comp het critique, and gender identity into one, and stick the landing. I’m shocked and pleased to report that Together figures it all out, lea...

21 days ago
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Make 'Em Laugh

Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man

Mel Brooks had a long flop era. You’d be forgiven for not knowing about it. We think of people like Brooks as stumbling into success early and living there. We don’t think about the peaks and valleys. But Br...

a month ago
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Our American Cousin

Big City Blues, 1932

The genre I fell in love with after silent film was early talkies. The kind that are 65 minutes long, packed with the greatest character actors you’ve ever seen, and full of the most subject matter you’ve ever seen. Dr...

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