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The Hainline Diaries: Recapping the 2013 Los Angeles Film Festival
Los Angeles Film Festival: Spanish for "The Film Festival of Angels."
Saturday, June 15:
I pull into Parking Garage B at LA Live, barely able to see in front of me. This wasn't the world-famous LA smog, this was rather the side effect of having spent the...
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LAFF Review: ‘You’re Next’ Lives Up to its Festival Hype
Before the film started, director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett introduced You're Next to the crowded theater by saying up front "We made this movie with the purpose of not making you feel like a horrible person when it ends. We want people to have fun...
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Introduction Into The Second Criterion
If I ask a movie buff what he or she expects from The Criterion Collection, I’ll probably hear talk about an excellently crafted, artfully made film released with a high standard of audio/visual quality and a handful of in-depth special features. And while the...
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Top 10 NC-17 Rated Films
In America, the NC-17 film rating carries a lot of baggage. Because of the nature of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) – in all its absurd censorship – if a film is rated NC-17, it is more or less dead theatrically. The marketing for an NC-17 ra...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (3/1/13–3/7/13)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1.) The Evil Dead
The Evil Dead's beauty lies in its simplicity. To wit, one of my favorite IMDb synopses ever: "Five friend...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (3/11/13–3/17/13)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1.) Murder!
A clock chimes, a woman screams, the titles come up: Murder! Thus begins Alfred Hitchcock's second sound film, a mur...
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Blu-Ray Review: The Terminator
The Film
James Cameron’s apprenticeship as a special effects artist for Roger Corman’s production company served him well on 1984’s The Terminator, Cameron’s second feature but the first to truly be his project from start to finish. Compared to later, more ...
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Runyon’s 20 Most Anticipated Films of Sundance 2013
Like the majority of movie-buffs, I wasn't able to go to Sundance. One of these days, perhaps my dream will become a reality, but this year it was not meant to be.
In the meantime, all I could do was fawn over my Twitter feed to see what movies were getting...
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