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The Wachowski Brothers achieved fame with the Matrix films, but it’s easy to forget that they started out with a bold and striking crime thriller which not only challenged convention, but turned out to be one of the most remarkable films of that year. Bound might not be on the same scale or scope as …

“It’s going to take a dead man to save the country…from a death merchant’s dream of destruction!” The 80s was an odd decade, but it was a high point for action films. John Rambo, John McClane, Riggs, Indiana Jones, Jack Burton and Chuck Norris (he needs no character) are all household names, but chances are …

Brian de Palma is a director who wears his influences on his sleeve. Many of his later movies were influenced by the work of Alfred Hitchcock, but Sisters was the first of his films to obviously embody this imitation. Drawing heavily on Hitchcock’s Psycho and Rear Window, Sisters is by no means a mere copy, …