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DISCLOSURE DAY
Review by Victoria Alexander WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD Terrible. A big disappointment. It has two great action scenes, and it does have a reveal at the end. Adding a Mother Superior of nuns was a howl. Where was Spielberg’s magic? It has long been UFO lore that Steven Spielberg, because of E.T. and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, was given secret government information. If anyone would be told at a private dinner the truth of alien visitation, it would have been Spielberg or Tom Clancy. Visi
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MICHAEL
Review by Victoria Alexander I went to see MICHAEL for the music. I left the theater terrified of Joe Jackson. I am reading Math and the Mona Lisa: The Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci by Bülent Atalay. There is a brief mention that Leonardo “may never have had a sexual relationship with a woman.” The author writes that “he may have been a homosexual was long suspected by art historians.” Well, “long suspected” flies in the face of Leonardo’s accusation of sodomy, and the
7 days ago
GINGER SNAPS arrives on 4K UHD from Lionsgate Limited
Purchase at Lionsgate Limited by clicking the image above GINGER SNAPS remains one of the strangest, sharpest, and most original werewolf films ever made. Directed by John Fawcett and written by Karen Walton, the 2000 Canadian cult horror film takes one of the oldest monster-movie myths and filters it through the most volatile period of teenage girlhood: puberty, menstruation, sexual awakening, social alienation, and the terrifying realization that the body has begun making d
May 24
A Hidden Link Between STAR WARS and THE EXORCIST at the 2026 TCM Classic Film Festival
By John Larkin The best film festivals are not only about the movies you see. They are about the strange, unexpected collisions that happen around them. A restoration leads to a conversation. A screening leads to a memory. A party leads to a piece of movie history that you did not know existed. That was my experience at this year’s TCM Classic Film Festival, which ran April 30 through May 3 in Hollywood. The 2026 theme was “The World Comes to Hollywood,” a fitting idea for a
May 4
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