masterpiece — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

William Lustig and Larry Cohen's 1990 Direct-to-Video Sequel Maniac Cop is a Masterpiece of Sleaze and Sin

You have the right to remain silent…forever!

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Exploiting the Archives: The Fractured Mirror 2.0 #2: The Other Side of the Wind (2018)

In remembrance of the late Peter Bogdanovich, we are re-running this piece on The Other Side of the Wind, Orson Welles’ towering final masterpiece and a haunting meditation on the writer-director’s complicated relationship with his protege.

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The Travolta/Cage Project #50 Face/Off (1997)

The big one is finally here! We take a joyous look back at Face/Off the exquisitely bonkers 1997 John Woo masterpiece that inspired this whole crazy column and the Travolta/Cage website.