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The 30 Best Fight Scenes in Movie History

I haven’t been in a fight since 10th grade (unless you count an attempted mugging in Kenya where I fended off some unarmed teenagers with a bag of water bottles), and I’d very much like to keep that streak alive. But at the heart of every good story is a struggle, and some times that struggle gets physical. We devoted a whole issue to exploring violence in the arts last year with philosophical nuance, but this list just celebrates a good fight. Sometimes it’s good vs. evil, sometimes it’s more complicated. We celebrate the underdog, the outnumbered and outsized finding...  read more

Eastern Promises 2 may reunite Mortensen and Cronenberg

If, like most people, you had the feeling that the movie Eastern Promises had a lot of potential, but rushed the ending (spoiler coming up soon), then a resolution to that problematic conclusion may have presented itself. In an unprecedented move, director David Cronenberg announced that he's moving towards a sequel. (Cronenberg has never directed a sequel to any of his movies, although The Fly and Scanners both had sequels.)...  read more