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  • Dirty Harry: Revisited

    By on May 30, 2008

    Warner Bros. is celebrating its 85th anniversary with something they are calling the Dirty Harry Ultimate Collector’s Edition box set, which features all five Dirty...

  • Gambling on Poker Movies

    By on March 28, 2008

    Blackjack may be the game of choice in Robert Luketic’s 21, which hits theaters today. But in honor of the American public’s fascination with all...

  • Top 10 Films of 2007

    By on January 8, 2008

    Longtime MM contributor and “Short Takes” blog author Rus Thompson shares his picks for the 10 best films of 2007—and a few misses. 1. Before...

  • Rus Thompson’s Short Takes: December 2007

    By on December 7, 2007

    Favorite of the Month: Jesus of Montreal (1989) This French Canadian film is a witty and provocative interpretation of Jesus’ last days, first told through...

  • Rus Thompson’s Short Takes: November 2007

    By on November 6, 2007

    Favorite of the month: The TV Set (2007) What could be more fun than watching Sigourney Weaver as a stone-hearted bitch of a TV executive?...

  • Rus Thompson’s Short Takes: October 2007

    By on October 16, 2007

    Favorite of the Month: The Lives of Others (2006) A story of surveillance and intrigue set during the finals days of East Germany’s soul-killing embrace...

  • Robert Greenwald

    By on September 23, 2004

    Rupert Murdoch, George W. Bush and Al Franken “star” in Robert Greenwald’s Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism Here is a scene in Robert Greenwald’s...

  • Poker Movies

    By on January 28, 2004

    Robert Shaw, Robert Redford and Paul Newman aren’t all in on The Sting (1973), directed by George Roy Hill. When Jennifer Wood, the managing editor...

  • The Best of Steve McQueen

    By on November 8, 1999

    Bullitt Something always Ate at Steve McQueen. Jabbed at him, circled him, closed in. Some kind of penitent force hovered over his life and career,...

  • Haskell Wexler

    By on September 11, 1999

    Wexler (right): Even his lesser films are well worth watching. WHEN HASKELL WEXLER WON the 1966 Best Cinematography Oscar for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,...