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“Blackhat”
Michael Mann provokes some extreme reactions in people, especially film critics tasked with defending or refuting the auteur's visionary filmmaking. Blackhat will not prove an exception in this arena. Its flaws will be highlighted, its defenders will justify t...
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Two Cool: “Thief” vs “Drive”
Michael Mann's Thief and Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive have a lot similarities than their five letter titles. It's almost as if the DNA of Thief runs through the fabric of Drive and greatly influenced Refn's story. Thief features a leading performance from Jame...
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Opening Acts 1/14/2015
Every day, Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
For your reading enjoyment …
Selma is a Horror Movie by Alyssa Rosenberg. Ms. Rosenberg ex...
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Crybercrimes and Misdemeanors: The Best Hacker Films
Hackers, as Hollywood has proven over the years, make for very interesting subjects in film. Stereotypically young and anarchic in nature, it was conceptually easy to fabricate a world full of teenage cyber terrorists fighting against rogue capitalists or gove...
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“Camp X-Ray”
Putting aside Prince of Persia, in which Jake Gyllenhaal, one of America’s whitest actors, played Persian royalty, Hollywood has rarely shown us a Middle Eastern man who is not an imminent threat. When it does, there is so much self-conscious winking involved ...
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“Blackhat” Trailer Features a Very Bad-Ass Chris Hemsworth
It's been a while since Michael Mann (Heat, Collateral) made a new film—five years have passed since Public Enemies—and audiences are eager for his latest output. Blackhat, which had been going by Cyber as recently as a few months ago, had been sitting in post...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (7/31/14–8/13/14)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1) The Deep Blue Sea
Terence Davies' adaptation of the 1952 Terence Rattigan play is the second filmed version...
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Top 10 Chicago Movies
Despite being the nation's third most populous city, Chicago remains oddly underrepresented on film. Loving natives like John Hughes, David Mamet, and Michael Mann really latched onto it and made it an integral aspect of the cinematic expression, but it remain...
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“Need For Speed” Burns Out Too Quickly
Early on in Need for Speed, a drive-in theater can be seen playing a clip from the foundational car-chase movie Bullitt, but the natural point of comparison for the film is, of course, the Fast and the Furious series. From a structural standpoint, this video-g...
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