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30 Years Ago, Dustin Hoffman Made Disaster Movie So Ahead Of Its Time It Seemed Like Sci-Fi

At the time, Wolfgang Petersen’s 'Outbreak' was too farfetched to seem true. Now, it just seems eerily prescient.

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10 Years Ago, Neill Blomkamp's Underrated Sci-Fi Flop Was Ahead Of Its Time

What is the solution to our current AI malaise? Neill Blomkamp's overhated sci-fi movie might have provided the solution: Make robots more human, not less.

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55 Years Ago, A Wildly Influential Disaster Thriller Invented A New Genre — And Changed Hollywood Forever

More than half a century after its release, Hollywood continues to pay its dues to 'Airport,' the grandaddy of the modern disaster movie.

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Hulu Just Quietly Added The Most Weirdly Prescient Superhero Movie Of The 2000s

Years before the MCU, M Night Shyamalan nailed its formula. 'Unbreakable' feels like it should’ve been released at the tail end of the superhero boom, not the beginning.

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30 Years Ago, A Forgotten Stephen King Flop Brought Together 4 Horror Legends

The Mangler may be one of the lesser Stephen King adaptations, but it at least brought together several horror icons.

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30 Years Later, Denzel Washington's Forgotten Cyberpunk Thriller Just Got a Huge Upgrade

Overshadowed by the release of The Matrix just four years later, 'Virtuosity' is still a pulp pleasure that anticipated much of cyberpunk action cinema that followed.

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3 Years Later, DC's Most Anticipated Horror Sequel Just Got a Very Promising Update

Keanu Reeves confirms that he and director Francis Lawrence have pitched a story to DC Studios, and are about to write a script.

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15 Years Ago, Martin Scorsese's Most Underrated Thriller Delivered A Shocking Twist That Still Holds Up

Even 15 years after its release, 'Shutter Island's ending continues to haunt.

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20 Years Later, DC's Most Divisive Noir Thriller Is Getting A Huge Upgrade

'Constantine' is a terrible 'Hellblazer' adaptation. But 20 years after its release, it's hard to deny its style.

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25 Years Ago, A Sci-Fi Sleeper Hit Transformed Vin Diesel Into a Star

In 'Pitch Black,' Vin Diesel became a star. Here's why the campy sci-fi thriller holds up, 25 years later.

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50 Years Ago, One Shocking Sci-Fi Film Quietly Changed Two Genres At Once

The 'Stepford Wives' is just as relevant today as it was in 1975. Maybe even more so.

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10 Oscar-winning films that are problematic in 2025

OSCARS 2025: Ahead of the 2025 ceremony, Rachel Brodsky runs through the 10 Oscar-winning films that haven’t aged well

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The Oral History of 'In the Mouth of Madness,' John Carpenter's Misunderstood Cosmic Horror Masterpiece

In 1995, John Carpenter released his cosmic horror film to lukewarm reviews. Inverse spoke to the team behind 'In the Mouth of Madness' about its complicated legacy.

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30 Years Ago, The Follow-Up To The Worst 'Highlander' Sequel Was Somehow Worse

Must 'Highlander' sequels outright suck? Or can they be merely bad? In 1995, the third 'Highlander' film split the difference and somehow failed more than it should have.

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11 epically long films that won’t waste your time, ranked

THE COUNTDOWN: In honour of Brady Corbet’s 215-minute epic ‘The Brutalist’ receiving 10 Oscar nods, Annabel Nugent and Jacob Stolworthy select 11 other movies with mammoth runtimes that are worth the investment

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25 Years Ago, A Cult Vigilante Thriller Became The Ultimate Hollywood Cautionary Tale

'The Boondock Saints' might've been a big hit on home release, but it's also viewed as a low point of the '90s indie cinema boom.

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41 Years Ago, David Lynch's Most Infamous Sci-Fi Epic Might've Changed Movies Forever

In another timeline where 'Dune' was given its proper due, David Lynch might have changed the face of blockbuster filmmaking.

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The 20 best feelgood films of all time, ranked

THE COUNTDOWN: The Independent’s culture team select 20 of the best comfort films across the years to cure even the worst case of January blues

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10 Years Ago, A Daring Sci-Fi Reboot Became the Best Time-Travel Show Ever

It's time to stop sleeping on this 2015 SyFy hidden gem. Here's why '12 Monkeys' was great 10 years ago and great now.

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85 Years Ago, A Horror Icon Made His Surprising Debut In A Forgotten Sci-Fi Sequel

Vincent Price kicked off his reign as the king of 20th century horror with The Invisible Man Returns — not that you’d know it.

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Hulu Just Quietly Added The Most Iconic Satirical Thriller of the 2000s

Twenty-five years ago, 'American Psycho' defined a generation and created a new horror vocabulary. And it's now streaming on Hulu and Disney+.

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5 Years Ago, Kristen Stewart Made A Sci-Fi Flop That Still Managed To Achieve The Impossible

'Underwater' did what many Lovecraft adaptations couldn't: It brought Cthulu to the big screen.

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15 Years Ago, Ethan Hawke Made A Cult-Classic Vampire Movie — And Reinvented the Genre

What if vampires were science fiction? In the 2010 underrated vampire movie, 'Daybreakers,' that's exactly what happens.

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26 Years Later, Christopher Nolan Has The Chance To Bring Back His Greatest Secret Weapon

With his upcoming adaptation of 'The Odyssey,' Christopher Nolan can and should reunite with his 'Memento' star.

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45 Years Ago, A Disney Misstep Was A Secret Sci-Fi Masterpiece

The haters were wrong. On its 45th birthday, 'The Black Hole' is just as wonderfully manic as ever. Here's why this flop is actually worth your time.

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