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Halftime Report: The Best Movies of 2014 So Far
The year has now half passed us by, which marks a good opportunity to take stock of what it's offered cinematically so far. Releasing a "best of" list for half a year may seem like clickbaiting, and perhaps it is, but it's no more so than any other kind of lis...
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Don’t Call “Miss Lovely” a Bollywood Movie
Bathed in the red lights of a bygone era, Miss Lovely shines as a Hindi answer to Boogie Nights with more than a few nods to film noir. The figures that color this world are just as intriguing as the Dario Argento-esque lighting and the aged film techniques us...
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She Thinks, Therefore She Becomes: The Catalytic Nature of “Don’t Think” in “Black Swan”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film and how that music fits within the context of the film as a whole and a place where we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
“The only person standing...
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“Cuban Fury” Needs More Than Just Corazón
One, two, three. Five, six, seven. That Latin rhythm plays almost nonstop throughout the movie Cuban Fury. You can trace the history of salsa through its soundtrack, from Benny More to Tito Puente to Willie Colon to Mark Anthony. Yet, even with a “best of” pla...
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The Second Criterion: “The Last Temptation of Christ”
I was a hardcore Bible kid, growing up. From fourth to sixth grade, I went to a Baptist elementary school. After that, I went to a Baptist middle school. For high school, I was in a Catholic high school, Catholicism being my family's main religion and not near...
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“Sabotage”: A Promising Return to Form For Arnold Schwarzenegger
Sabotage begins with low-fi footage of a woman in close-up being tortured as she wails for help that will never come, and it never gets any more pleasant from there. Following in the wake of End of Watch, the film only deepens co-writer/director David Ayer’s c...
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Top 10 Christian-Themed Movies
With Son of God and God's Not Dead finding modest purchase at the box office (and considerable fruition in think pieces everywhere) and Darren Aronofsky's Noah ready and waiting to frustrate just about everybody, it would seem that Christians have a harder tim...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (3/20/14 — 3/26/14)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1) Akira
Like many an American movie buff raised on a steady diet of Classic Hollywood and Disney animation, I have cert...
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“The Pretty One”: An Original Film With an Unfortunate Identity Crisis
Practically coined as timeless catch phrases ready to be employed as self-loathing resources by the insecure and emotionally volatile youngsters of any given generation are questions and statements like “Who am I” “What am I doing here”” No one loves me” “Will...
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