Keyword: general
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
If you’ve never given Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb a fair shot, 1964 is as good a year as any to fix that — Stanley Kubrick’s film has aged into something like a cult favorite. You can tell a lot about a movie from its tagline, and…
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Akira
Not every action movie needs to reinvent the wheel, but Akira manages to feel fresh anyway, thanks largely to Katsuhiro Otomo’s confident direction. Even the marketing knew what it had: the tagline “Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.” sets the mood before a single frame plays. Here’s the hook, in brief: A secret military project endangers…