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Spoilers: This review speaks in specific terms about the ending of the film. If you haven't seen it and intend to do so, avoid reading beyond the first few paragraphs. The Mission represented Roland Joffé's follow-up to his deeply unsettling...

The first thing to state about Salo, the oft-banned and infamous final movie of Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, is that it has a purpose beyond depicting a catalog of taboos and grotesqueries rarely seen on screen. With Salo, which has a sec...

When it was released in 1982, John Carpenter's remake of Howard Hawks' 1951 science fiction classic The Thing from Another World spurred much debate about not only which film was more effective but whether Carpenter's version fit better into the sc...

The Untouchables is a tour de force, the pinnacle of a career. For Brian De Palma, known best for his stylish crafting of Hitchcock-influenced plots, The Untouchables represents not only a departure from the norm, but an unqualified triumph. This...

"Even a man who is pure in heart,And says his prayers by night,May become a wolf when the wolfbane bloomsAnd the Autumn moon is bright."- The Wolf Man (1941) As the saying goes, "everything old is new again." In the Fall of 1992, there was Fran...