retro review
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Why Isn’t Close Encounters Considered Steven Spielberg’s Ultimate Masterpiece? Because It Kind of Is
Many people would agree that Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a straight-up masterpiece. That’s not some wild stretch. And yet, ask those same people what the best Steven Spielberg movies are and there’s a very good chance it barely makes the top five. (Seriously. I ran a poll to check this. It’s true.)…
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The Night Stalker Was a Vampire Horror About the Power of Stating the Obvious
A protagonist’s utter unawareness about the supernatural danger they’re dealing with can oftentimes make vampires in their midst, thinks to themselves: “Let me go get myself a cross and a stake.”
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Spider-Man 2 Is a Perfect Sequel
So many the cost of forgetting what really made their predecessor work in the first place. Sam Raimi’s sophomore Spider-Man movie aimed much higher and bigger than his first movie ever could, in part because of just how keenly it understood Marvel’s mightiest hero.
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Logan’s Run Is Somehow Both Fabulously Dated and Weirdly Timeless
Logan’s Run was released in June 1976. That means, according to the rules of the movie’s gleaming utopia, it expired 14 years ago — since ageing past 30 is simply unheard of. And while as oddly relatable as ever.