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Although he had directed many fine feature films before this 1976 thriller (including the exquisite Sisters [1973] and Phantom of the Paradise [1974]), it was Carrie that truly landed Brian De Palma on the cinematic A list. The director's critically...

There is no in-between when it comes to the Step Up franchise. Staunch supporters of the dance movies that started in 2006 with Channing Tatum in one of his earliest roles praise the “jaw-dropping and innovative dance sequences,” while others...

Opening in New York 41 years ago tomorrow, director Sam Peckinpah’s The Killer Elite (1975) – prescient in its themes of moral corruption and malevolent unlawful activity in high places during that decade’s outburst of paranoiac thrillers – nonetheless...

The SLIFR Movie Treehouse is a place where I like to gather a few of my movie-writing pals and exchange long e-mails on the way the movies shaped up for us in the year just left behind. It’s been a few years since I’ve undertaken this project, but the...

Now that it’s clear the presidential election probably isn’t going to get a true October surprise, should we start waiting for the Oscar race to give us a November or December surprise? It’s tempting. As films like Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation...