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Is True Romance the ultimate male movie fantasy?

by Anton Bitel

With its movie nerd hero, dot­ing blonde hero­ine and shock­ing vio­lence, this ear­ly ​’90s cult clas­sic is peak Tarantino.
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Discover this postmodern, manga-inspired meditation on authorship

by Anton Bitel

Tezuka’s Bar­bara is a meta ode to the director’s late father, the ​‘god­fa­ther’ of the Japan­ese graph­ic novel.
Two faces in close embrace, one woman and one man, intimate and emotional moment.
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How Basic Instinct turned the erotic thriller on its head

by Anton Bitel

Paul Verhoeven’s sub­ver­sive 1992 film is a Hitch­cock­ian thriller with the kink brought to the surface.
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The cult teen crime-drama that became a Gen X touchstone

by Anton Bitel

The angst-rid­den Over the Edge from 1979 was a major influ­ence on Richard Lin­klater and Kurt Cobain.
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Discover this sweet-toothed Japanese corporate satire

by Anton Bitel

Yasuzô Masumura’s Giants and Toys from 1958, about rival con­fec­tionary com­pa­nies, shows a nation in flux.
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Discover this medieval monster movie inspired by Army of Darkness

by Anton Bitel

Jor­dan Downey’s fan­ta­sy revenge hor­ror The Head Hunter pays homage to Sami Raimi’s Evil Dead series.
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Discover the fast-paced thrills of this hard-boiled Euro crime drama

by Anton Bitel

Based on real events, Ser­gio Martino’s Silent Action from 1975 is as cyn­i­cal as it is uncompromising.
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Discover the film that brought together two of horror’s greatest stars

by Anton Bitel

The Black Cat was the first of six Uni­ver­sal pic­tures to star Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi.
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Discover the sole horror film produced during the Soviet era

by Anton Bitel

Viy, Kon­stan­tin Ershov and Georgiy Kropachyov’s 1967 Goth­ic chiller, boasts spec­tac­u­lar visu­als and effects.
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Discover this gross-out ’90s high school movie by way of Jurassic Park

by Anton Bitel

Star­ring Denise Richards and an ani­ma­tron­ic dino, Tam­my and the T‑Rex is one of the decade’s camp­i­est curios.