When I arrived at NC State in the mid-80s, there was a bit of a buzz when the Rialto hosted a midnight screening of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. According to what I was told, the film hadn’t played Raleigh since the original run when a woman was murdered. The
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Marcello Mastroianni was Italian cinema for me in the ’80s when they’d run his film at the campus “art screen.” After watching him in La Dolce Vita and 8 1/2, if anyone mentioned an Italian film, my first question was “Is Marcello in it?” When I’d poke around the small
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The rise of a new empire, the epic battle continues as Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures releases the second official trailer for the upcoming monster movie Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. View trailer below. The epic battle continues! Legendary Pictures’ cinematic Monsterverse follows up the explosive showdown of “Godzilla
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