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America at 250 Is a Clash of ‘Taxi Driver’ vs ‘All the President’s Men’

July 3, 2026July 9, 2026 Robert Dean 0 Comments 1970s cinema, 1976 films, Alan J. Pakula, algorithms, alienation, All the President's Men, America at 250, American cinema, American politics, antihero, Ben Bradlee, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, cultural criticism, democracy, Dustin Hoffman, Fight Club, film criticism, Hollywood, institutions, Journalism, local journalism, loneliness, loneliness epidemic, manosphere, Martin Scorsese, media consolidation, media trust, movies, news media, newspapers, Paul Schrader, political films, Richard Nixon, Robert De Niro, Robert Redford, social media, Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle, Washington Post, Watergate

Travis Bickle is wiping the floor with Woodward and Bernstein

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An Iconic Movie for Our Paranoid Age

September 28, 2025October 1, 2025 Samuel Porteous 0 Comments 1970s paranoia thrillers, Anthony and Joe Russo, CIA in film, Cliff Robertson, Faye Dunaway, John Houseman, Joubert assassin, KGB NIIP program, Max von Sydow, Open Source Enterprise, Robert Redford, Seinfeld Junk Mail episode, Sydney Pollack, The Manchurian Candidate, The Parallax View, Three Days of the Condor

‘Three Days of the Condor’ gets more frightening as it gets older

So Farewell, Then, Robert Redford

September 16, 2025September 19, 2025 Samuel Porteous 4 Comments Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Elizabeth Ashley, Natalie Wood, Perry Mason, Robert Redford, Sundance Film Festival

An appreciation of a ‘pretty boy’ done good

Judge a Book by Its Amazing New Revamped Cover (and Original Art Inside)

July 10, 2025July 8, 2025 Michael Washburn 0 Comments Beowulf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, George R.R. Martin, Haruki Murakami, Mia Farrow, Philip K. Dick, Robert Redford, The Folio Society, The Great Gatsby, Yuko Shimizu

The Great Gatsby and others get the Folio Society treatment

1975

No Time For Superheroes: The Films of 1975

January 24, 2025January 29, 2025 Gillian G. Gaar 2 Comments Al Pacino, Barbara Harris, Dog Day Afternoon, James Caan, Jaws, Katherine Ross, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Nashville, Norman Jewison, Robert Altman, Robert Redford, Rollerball, Steven Spielberg, The Godfather: Part 2, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Stepford Wives, Three Days of the Condor, Wonka

What a difference a half-century makes

baseball

The Best Baseball Movies

March 30, 2023March 30, 2023 Nicholas Tamarin 0 Comments 42, baseball, Bernie Mac, Bob Uecker, Brad Pitt, Bull Durham, Chadwick Boseman, Charlie Shen, Eight Men Out, Field of Dreams, Geena Davis, Jackie Earle Haley, John Sayles, Jonah Hill, Kevin Costner, Major League, Moneyball, Mr. 300, Mr. Baseball, Robert Redford, Susan Sarandon, Tatum O'Neal, The Bad News Bears, The Natural, Tom Hanks, Tom Selleck

Just a bit outside, it’s Opening Day

Sidney Poitier

The Best of Sidney Poitier

January 7, 2022 Neal Pollack 0 Comments Bill Cosby, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, In The Heat of the Night, Patch of Blue, Richard Pryor, Robert Redford, Rod Steiger, Sidney Poitier, The Blackboard Jungle

Hollywood legend is dead at age 94

Olympics

The Best Movies about The Olympics

July 26, 2021July 28, 2021 Samuel Porteous 3 Comments Ben Cross, Cary Grant, Chariots Of Fire, Downhill Racer, Eric Bana, Foxcatcher, Gene Hackman, I Tonya, Ian Charleston, Ian Holm, James Salter, Miracle, Munich, Olympics, Robert Redford, Samantha Eggar, Steve Prefontaine, Steven Spielberg, Walk Don't Run, Without Limits

A biennial pursuit of cinematic excellence

Butch Cassidy

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William Goldman’s Western Cowards

November 29, 2018December 6, 2018 Ben Schwartz 0 Comments A Bridge Too Far, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Catch-22, Katharine Ross, Marathon Man, Paddy Chayevsky, Paul Newman, Robert Redford, The Wild Bunch, William Goldman

‘Butch Cassidy’ and Running From a Fight

The Old Man & The Gun

‘The Old Man & The Gun’: A Throwback To When Movies Were Good

September 27, 2018September 28, 2018 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Old Man And The Gun, Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek

Amazingly, The Sundance Kid Isn’t Shooting Blanks

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Robert Redford Premieres The Company You Keep

April 2, 2013July 19, 2018 Ken Kurson 0 Comments Brit Marling, Robert Redford, Shia LaBeouf, Sony Pictures, Stanley Tucci, Zosia Mamet

Radical chic in full bloom at MOMA

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Smoking Hot Prudes Rock for ‘One Night Only’

August 9, 2026August 12, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

Authoritarian science fiction never looked so sexy

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BFG Podcast #312: Is Spider-Man Any Good? Plus, Summer Dragon Fights for All!

August 7, 2026August 12, 2026 Book and Film Globe Staff 0

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‘Avatar Aang: The Last Airbender’ Succeeds in Spite of Its Troubled Release

August 5, 2026August 12, 2026 J. Barnes 0

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‘The Hawk’ Scores a Triple Bogey

August 2, 2026August 5, 2026 Dan Friedman 0

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