No one, but no one does crime like Michael Mann.
His films are creatures of the night, in love with the way glowing urban sprawl looks from a God’s eye view. From above, a city looks like a sea of twinkling star light; down below, on the streets, all is dark, gritty, and deadly. The monsters [...]

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Poor Phillip K. Dick.
He never lived long enough to see his books and short stories made into some of our most enduring and entertaining SciFi films: Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report, Paycheck…well, maybe it’s a good thing he’s dead.
What many don’t know about Dick’s life is that it was plagued by rampant drug use [...]

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In the days leading up to its opening, Lady in the Water was getting sunk by terrible reviews. While I was certainly concerned, I also remembered that The Village got similar treatment and I esteem it to be M. Night Shyamalan’s best film and the finest of that year.
I’m afraid that the lion’s share of [...]

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The second one always sucks.
It’s called the sequel curse. It’s not a scientific hypothesis of course, but like the lesser-known but even more accurate Star Trek “even movies are great/odd movies suck” rule, it certainly holds water. And when it comes to Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, it holds a hell of a [...]

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