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Russian toughs are scary most of the time. You know the look: big muscles, hard stares, and often a faint suggestion that they’re connected to something while strutting around the boardwalks of Brighton Beach. In most American movies, this kind of typecasting is a visual shorthand for intimidation and menace.

Even from the first film, Joker has only had the thinnest veneer of being a film about the criminal clown who fights Batman. It was, first and foremost, an homage to Martin Scorsese’s films The King of Comedy and Taxi Driver, with some comic book signifiers to guarantee a wider

There have been over ninety adaptations for television and the big screen of Stephen King’s material. Some great, some okay, and some just bad. He was once asked what he thought about his books being turned into films and if they came out badly would hurt him, he answered, “Once

The Main Slate of the 62nd New York Film Festival features everything from early features by promising young filmmakers to late-career gems from some of the industry’s most legendary auteurs. And while it’s easy to gravitate towards the more traditional “big names” on the list, you shouldn’t miss the opportunity

This article contains spoilers for The Penguin episode 4. The latest episode of HBO’s The Penguin opens the doors to Arkham State Hospital and invites us into the fractured psyche of Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti). Colin Farrell’s titular mobster played second fiddle to Sofia this week, but aside from the