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28 Years Later, Sam Raimi's Most Underrated Thriller Just Got A Huge Upgrade

After directing The Evil Dead trilogy, but before revolutionizing the superhero movie with Spider-Man, Sam Raimi directed a frighteningly human crime drama.

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59 Years Later, A Surreal Crime Thriller Masterpiece Is Getting A Huge Upgrade

Criterion's new 4K UHD disc of 'Point Blank' highlights the stark beauty and brutal violence of Le Marvin and John Boorman's 1967 crime masterpiece.

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45 Years Ago, A Polarizing Director Revived His Career With An All-Time Fantasy Epic Classic

John Boorman needed a career comeback. Along came 'Excalibur.'

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45 Years Later, The Best Lord Of The Rings Movie That Never Was Is Getting A Huge Upgrade

First conceived as a 'Lord of the Rings' adaptation, John Boorman's 'Excalibur' is a cinematic feat unto itself. And it's now available in 4K.

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Zardoz Is Probably The Strangest Sci-Fi Movie You'll Ever See, And It Stars Sean Connery

The gun is good. The penis...is eeeeviiiilll.

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Brendan Gleeson: ‘I was always more interested in enjoying life than being pretty’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: The Oscar-nominated star of ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ talks to Patrick Smith about ‘H Is for Hawk’, the Irish attitude to death, toxic scripts, the dangers of overenthusiastic parenting, and actors losing their looks

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‘Clearly the worst film ever made by anyone ever’: inside John Boorman’s horrific Exorcist sequel

After landmark flop The Heretic, the director was considering ‘immolating myself on Hollywood Boulevard’ in 1977. But a new documentary premiering at Venice calls for its redemption

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Hitting the road with the Dave Clark Five

Letter: Sean Kaye-Smith on a music film that didn’t have a happy ending, in response to an article on Slade’s bid for cinema greatness

The Guardian - UK

Marshall Brickman obituary

Screenwriter, musician and director who won an Oscar, with Woody Allen, for the screenplay of Annie Hall

The Guardian - UK

Tom Priestley obituary

Film editor who was nominated for an Oscar for Deliverance and sought to promote his father JB Priestley’s writing

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: loads of fun with the supercharged Gladiators reboot

Viewers, ready? It’s the return of the brilliant 90s challenge show. Plus: Big Zuu’s fantastic foodie tour continues. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Killers of the Flower Moon to The Kitchen: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Martin Scorsese’s 206-minute epic stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone, and a striking sci-fi that’s part Blade Runner, part District 9 and brims with rage

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Michel Ciment, veteran French film critic, dies aged 85

The longtime chief of Positif film magazine started working there in 1968, and was a passionate advocate of cinema until his death

The Guardian - UK

Today’s ‘films’ are nothing of the sort – so stop calling them that

Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans was the only best picture nominee this year actually shot on film. It’s time to stop misnaming movies, says the director John Boorman

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Ian Whittaker obituary

Set decorator who worked for Merchant Ivory productions, and with Ken Russell and Ridley Scott

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45 years ago, the worst Exorcist sequel almost killed the franchise forever

The Heretic was conceived as nothing more than a “low-budget rehash” heavily reliant on unused footage from The Exorcist.

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