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All posts by Colin Biggs
High Tension: The Best of William Friedkin
He has over thirty directing credits under his belt, but his best films always leave a scar. That's how William Friedkin just seems to work. Whether he's terrifying us with the possession of a young girl, repelling us with oral sex on a chicken wing, or makin...
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LVFCS Goes for “Birdman” Down the Line
Boyhood has swept a majority of critics awards this last week, but today the Las Vegas Film Critics Society put their chips behind Fox Searchlight's Birdman, awarding the film seven awards for best picture, best director, best actor, best screenplay, cinematog...
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Bond 24 Officially Titled ‘Spectre’
The press conference for the new James Bond film went over just as well as movie fans anticipated. After the series regulars were announced (Daniel Craig, Naomie Harris, Ben Wishaw and Ralph Fiennes are all returning) newcomers Christoph Waltz, Monica Bellucci...
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Edgar Wright Shares His Favorite Flicks of 2014
The New York Film Critic's Circle released their picks for the best films of 2014 this morning, but I'm going to focus on the selections from the director of Shaun of the Dead and The World's End instead. Edgar Wright sat down with Esquire's Emily Zemler to di...
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Full Cast for “The Hateful Eight” Announced
Filming has begun on Quentin Tarantino's next revenge Western, The Hateful Eight, so accordingly the cast has been revealed to curious fans. Tarantino's cast of regulars Jackson, Madsen, Roth, and Russell are all reprising their parts from the live reading sev...
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Top 6 Reel Political Moments
With Election Day here at last, we can finally set aside some time from the day to actually vote. When it's all said and done, go back home and reflect with some of these better politically-themed films and cartoons.
1) The Candidate (dir. Michael Ritchie)
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The Story of Casting Elliot in “E.T.”
This week's new Academy Originals episode gives viewers a rare look behind-the-scenes at one of the crucial moments of the making of Steven Spielberg's ET: The Extra-Terrestrial.
E.T. is widely regarded as a classic film for movie lovers of all ages, but wi...
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Coens’ “Hail, Caesar!” Coming in 2016
If the Marvel Phase 3 announcement proved anything it's that it is never too early to start getting excited over a film coming out in the future. What has fans pumped today is news from Universal that the Coen Brothers' Hail, Caesar! will be hitting theatres i...
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2014 Gotham Awards Announced
The Gotham Awards are the earliest ceremony in awards season, and rather than focus on the some of the big-hitters later on in the year, they hold up some of the indie darlings already released in the year. Additionally, the Gotham nominators also recognize th...
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“Dracula Untold”
Ambiguity isn't tolerated by studios anymore, especially when it comes to high-profile characters who can serve as franchise-starters. And characters don't come with a higher profile than the lord of vampires himself, Dracula. Origin stories boomed with Batman...
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