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The Unloved, Part 151: Millennium Bugs

Take this as a sequel to my piece that ran two days ago, “Retreating From The Elephant,” about the dismal state of the

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The Unloved, Part 150: Laggies

Having just come off the set of a movie and renewed my appreciation for accidents, deadlines, compromises, and heartbreak, I thought I’d look

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Poetry in the Abyss: Béla Tarr (1955-2026) | Tributes

We must find another word for what happens to us during the films of Béla Tarr. We don’t observe them without them observing

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One Final Look: Terence Stamp (1938-2025) | Tributes

“A lot of ‘em are gone…the old faces,” Terence Stamp’s Wilson says flatly an hour into Steven Soderbergh’s exquisite neo-noir “The Limey,” with

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The Unloved, Part 139: “Wild Card”

Simon West auteurism is not for the faint of heart. Unlike Joseph H. Lewis or Phil Karlsen, his compromised studio work has less

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The Unloved, Part 138: Rebel Moon | MZS

As with Michael Bay, I was waiting (if not patiently) for the day Zack Snyder produced something I found essential, and even when

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Lookin’s Free: Joe Don Baker (1936-2025) | Tributes

Joe Don Baker was one of the first to teach me what screen acting was. As a kid, I was a “Mystery Science

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The Unloved, Part 135: Adoration | MZS

The untempered version of world events right now: Things are not getting better. There’s no opposition coming, there’s no reckoning on the way, there

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The Unloved, Part 134: The Better Angels | MZS

With the state of Democracy a shambles and hope being sucked out of the country like helium from a balloon, I thought I’d

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The Unloved, Part 130: Hollow Man | MZS

This month, we pay tribute not just to a movie that almost instantly fell out of the public consciousness but to a great writer

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