Tag: Strange Days
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Tom Sizemore, ‘Saving Private Ryan’ Actor, Dies at 61
Tom Sizemore, the actor who played supporting parts in dozens of beloved ’90s films like “Saving Private Ryan” and “Heat,” died on Friday, March 3 in Los Angeles after being taken off life support. Variety first confirmed the news. Sizemore’s death comes more than a week after the actor suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm in…
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The Idea For Strange Days Came To James Cameron Nearly A Decade Before The Film Would Be Made
Dystopian science fiction movies often reveal as much about the time they were made as the future they are predicting, although few films have the poles set as closely together as Kathryn Bigelow’s “Strange Days.” Controversial at the time for its disturbing depiction of sexual violence and racial injustice, the dark neo-noir was released in…
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The final frontier: how female directors broke into sci-fi
It was seen as a job for the boys. That’s changing thanks to the likes of Ava DuVernay, Patty Jenkins and Claire Denis being given opportunities to oversee big-budget productionsCritical reactions to Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time may have been mixed, but there’s no denying it is a cinema landmark. DuVernay is not just…