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Eric Berger Update: This week, Ars staffers from across the country gather together in real life for our annual meeting, Technicon. We’re supposed to be talking more than typing, so we’re resurfacing a few classic Ars stories just in case the front page gets lonely. This one, which originally ran on November 22, 2015, centers […]
REUTERS/Jim Young The Reverend Edward Ganster is among hundreds of priests named in the Pennsylvania grand jury investigation that revealed a mass child abuse scandal across six Catholic Church dioceses. Ganster was first accused of abusing a teenage boy in 1977 when he was a priest at St. Joseph’s Church in Easton. He left the […]
Gordon Parks Jr.’s 1972 blaxploitation film gets a slick modern update with 2018’s Superfly, a new movie from a filmmaker Director X. Watch the Superfly trailer below. In 1972, the blaxploitation film Superfly hit theaters and unleashed a killer soundtrack featuring songs like “Pusherman” by Curtis Mayfield Now here comes Superfly, which brings the story into the 21s century and throws in […]
Anyone who knows the films of the late Hal Ashby often finds it difficult to put into words exactly what it was that separated his work from that of other directors that rose to success in the 1970s. In many ways, his significance and influence as a filmmaker is best understood in the works of […]
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Few tourists would think of North Korea as a place to holiday in the present political climate. In fact, the Foreign Office has advises against all but essential travel to the country, which is under the dictatorship of Kim Jong-un. However, rare tourist postcards and brochures, resurfacing from the 1970s and 1980s, portray the country […]
The boys are (officially) back in town. Amazon is developing James Gunn’s Starsky & Hutch revival, the streaming video service announced Thursday. The reboot comes from Sony Pictures TV Studios. The new take on Starsky & Hutch is described as a “character-driven, one-hour procedural” that is a continuation of the original series that “deconstructs the buddy-cop genre in the […]
Whishaw, who has previously starred in James Bond films Spectre and Skyfall, will play Norman Scott, the ex-lover Thorpe was acquitted in June 1979 of conspiring to murder. A Very English Scandal will be written by former Doctor Who executive producer Russell T. Davies, who announced the casting of Whishaw on stage at the Edinburgh […]
Long before the late 1970s, Ferrari was Ferrari, winning racing and providing road cars to royalty and Hollywood royalty for decades. But it’s the mid-engined, V8-powered 1977 Ferrari 308 GTS with its removable roof panel, which debuted at that year’s Frankfurt Auto Show, that made the brand a household name. Blame Tom Selleck’s mustache if […]
Mindhunter, the first of any announced David Fincher TV project in a long while to make it through production towards an actual release date (Fincher had previously been developing two TV projects — Utopia and Video Synchronicity — which never saw the light of day), has its first trailer. Fincher fans will be delighted (and Fincher skeptics will have more fuel for skepticism) […]
