Barry Wurst
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Why 1986’s ‘The Great Mouse Detective’ Saved Disney
There was a point where the Walt Disney company nearly went bankrupt thanks to “The Black Cauldron.” As multiple tomes…
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‘Dragonslayer’ Delivered the Best Creature of Its Kind … Ever
My five-year-old daughter loves dragons, especially those hailing from the quasi-Scottish village of Berk and have names like Toothless and…
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How ‘Waking Life’ Perfectly Captures Richard Linklater at His Best
Movies allow us to live vicariously through others, act as voyeurs and witness things we’d never see in real life.…
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Faith-Friendly ‘Vigil’ Knows When to Make Us Laugh, Cringe
“The Vigil” is an exercise in horror that effectively builds its character and narrative tensions in the first half only…
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Disney’s ‘White Fang’ – No CGI, All Heart
The Walt Disney Company has a history of making great films about animals, nature and the harsh realities of living…
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‘Raiders’ at 40: Indy Hasn’t Aged a Minute
Halfway through Steven Spielberg’s “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” Indiana Jones sneaks into the mythical map room and discovers the…
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How Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’ Invaded Our Dreams
The opening of David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive” is a delirious jitterbug sequence, in which figures dance all over the screen.…
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How ‘Silence of the Lambs’ Shattered the Horror Movie Mold
Jonathan Demme’s “The Silence of the Lambs” introduces each of its main characters by showing them in their home or…
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How ‘Barton Fink’ Let the Coen Brothers Push Us to the Limit
Throughout “Barton Fink,” a film producer named Lipnick (Michael Lerner, in an Oscar-nominated turn) speaks of craving “that Barton Fink…
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How ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Captures History in Sizzling Detail
“Judas and the Black Messiah” begins in Chicago, 1968, where we meet a car thief whose ruse is to impersonate…
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