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All posts by Julia Alexander
Looking for Something That’ll… Break Through: The Posters of David Cronenberg
Film is art. The way a scene is framed can evoke the strongest of emotions. Seeing the face of an excitedly terrified young man as he stares at his older lover through the way her leg seductively bends or having a solitary man walk across a bridge, futuristic ...
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Shall We Dance?: The Best Musical Sequences on Film
It’s not just the tracks from musicals that seem to forever replay themselves on loop in the heads of avid watchers. It’s the theatrics, the shift in lighting, and the vibrancy of actors, staying in sync with their dancing partner. It’s the ability to progres...
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Right on Film: 5 Films Born of the Reagan Era
Ronald Reagan was a controversial president. There wasn’t a line he straddled for most people; you either hated the man and his politics or you adored his way of thinking. Whether you hated Reagan or not, however, the perception of masculinity, patriotism, and...
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Looking Good, Looking Glass: The Many Iterations of Alice
“You would have to be half mad to dream me up.” The Mad Hatter, as far as characters dreamt up by the illustriously literary genius Lewis Carroll goes, seems to be the one most akin to its creator. Carroll, born 183 years ago on January 27, 1832 in Daresbury, ...
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Hurts So Good: The Best of BDSM Film
It’s no secret that sex sells in Hollywood. The more sensual and wanton the characters appear and the more nudity they’re allowed to get away with tends to help sell the idea of a film to both a studio and a mainstream movie going audience.As conversation surr...
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Settling the Score: The Music of Michael Mann
A film’s score can make or break that film. In instances like Drive or the recent Foxcatcher where less emphasis is placed on dialogue and the audience’s attention is drawn to the silence between characters, the ambience the soundtrack curates as an experience...
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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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Love Streams: 1/8/2014
Nothing beats dragging your heavily resistant friends to the movies, sliding into the semi-uncomfortable and questionably sticky seat, and dealing with the annoying texter three rows below you. For everything else, there’s MasterCard.
Or in this instance, the...
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(Special S)Kill List: 5 Films to Watch If You Like “Taken”
This Friday, Liam Neeson once again gears up as the former government operative turned rogue vengeance seeker Bryan Mills in the third installment of the Luc-Besson-penned action franchise Taken. Like the first two films, Taken 3 brings Mills out of retiremen...
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5 Films That Were DOA and Premiered on VOD
One of the advantages to being a well-known actor is that if you want to experiment behind the camera, studios are more than willing to take a chance on you. They’ll invest the money you need, hire the best crew they can, and do everything in their power to en...
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