WITNESS THE LIVES OF INTERESTING PEOPLE MADE MORE INTERESTING VIA SUBJECTIVE TRUTHS, PLASTIC AVATARS, UNRELIABLE NARRATORS, AND CG MONKEY-FICATION!! Biopics: bland, formulaic, predictable. You’ve seen one, you’ve seen them all, right? Well, not every filmmaker is content to follow the blueprint. Join Gabe and returning guest Tyler Foster as they explore four examples of Unconventional Biopics that break the narrative and aesthetic rules of the genre. This month’s titles inclu

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Michael Crichton, the forever king of high concept speculative airport fiction, made his directorial debut with the beloved science fiction pastiche Westworld (1973). Unlike the HBO series remake that followed, this version of the story puts thrills and entertainment value ahead of provocative existentialism, preventing Crichton from digging too deeply into the horrors of being a sentient machine. Instead, with what little time he has (this is a very short movie), he focuses

During the 1980s, Hong Kong studios began the search for a female equivalent to rising cinema idols, like Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, in keeping with the tradition of King Hu’s Come Drink with Me (1966), Huang Feng’s Hapkido (aka: Lady Kung Fu, 1972), and Lau Kar-leung’s My Young Auntie (1981). This led to a series of full-throttle action classics affectionately known as Girls with Guns movies. The Girls with Guns genre really kicked off with the In the Line of Duty films, a