Tag: Steve McQueen
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Hellraiser Director David Bruckner To Remake Another Horror Classic, The Blob
2023 did not lack for good-to-great original horror movies. You can’t hate a year that gave us “When Evil Lurks,” “Skinamarink,” “Talk to Me” and “M3GAN” (among several others). So who cares if Hollywood persists in remaking horror classics, even if it’s already been remade (and remade well)?Irvin Yeaworth’s 1958 “The Blob” is hardly a…
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AFI Fest 2023 Lineup Includes ‘All Of Us Strangers,’ Steve McQueen’s ‘Occupied City,’ ‘The Bikeriders’ & More
AFI Fest marks the end of the Fall film festival circuit before the industry shifts gears toward Awards season. And while that means there are plenty of titles at the Hollywood-set festival premiered elsewhere earlier in the year, it still offers some premieres of its own. IndieWire reports that AFI Fest 2023 announced its full…
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Inspired by ‘Poor Things’ and ‘The Zone of Interest,’ Edward Berger Wants to Bring Film4 Model to Germany
Remarking on the sterling success of Yorgos Lanthimos’ “Poor Things” in Venice and of Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” in Cannes, “All Quiet on the Western Front” director Edward Berger has noticed a trend – and he hopes to apply that recognition back to the German industry.“Film4 came and took [filmmakers like Jonathan Glazer,]…
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Is ‘The Blob’ Based on a True Story?
The 1950s was, arguably, the Golden Age of cinematic mutated monsters, thanks to a perfect storm of post-World War II anxieties surrounding the deadly power of nuclear weapons, mistrust in the intentions of science, and the advent of the Cold War and its offspring, the Space Race. The films during the period are indicative of…
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How William Friedkin’s The French Connection Defined The Modern Movie Car Chase
There were car chases in movies before Peter Yates’ “Bullitt,” but the notion of the car chase as a showstopping set piece did not really exist before Steve McQueen hopped in a Highland Green Ford Mustang Gt fastback and tore ass all over the hilly streets of San Francisco. Suddenly, vehicular mayhem was an obligatory…
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‘They Cloned Tyrone’ Review: John Boyega Carries Netflix Thriller
Though there is nothing more agonizing than re-litigating the disaster that was the closing chapter of the trilogy in the recent Star Wars films, the one thing that still must be said is that John Boyega deserved far better in so many regards. With some distance from it now, it is clear that he was…
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Steve McQueen Was the True King of Cool in This 8-Minute Scene
Ali MacGraw once said of her then-husband Steve McQueen in an interview with People Magazine, “This was a man who could walk into any room and man, woman, and child all would go, ‘Whoa, what’s that?’ And I was no exception.” Well, that’s some pretty high praise for “The King of Cool” who thrilled us…
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Pierce Brosnan’s Best Role Was Emulating Steve McQueen
If there’s any film that explains why Steve McQueen was known as “the King of Cool,” it’s 1968’s The Thomas Crown Affair. While Bullitt, The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Papillon, and The Towering Inferno are all classics in their own right, it’s the relative simplicity of McQueen’s slick demeanor in The Thomas Crown Affair…