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The Reeves-urrection: The Second Coming of Keanu Reeves
Just last week, it was announced that Keanu Reeves had joined the cast of Ana Lily Amirpour’s (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night) next film titled The Bad Batch. There’s plenty of reasons to be excited about this film, but the fact that Reeves is apart of it on...
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The Women in the Window: Max Ophüls’ Elegance
The woman figure is central to Max Ophuls’ oeuvre. His female protagonists, for the majority of their screen time, often find themselves in pain, because of, well, society, be it financial shortage or unattainable love. As a result, besides the famous use of t...
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Cop Stars: The Best Buddy Cop Films
What happens when you take two great things and mix them together? You get peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, breakfast stouts, snowboarding, candied apples, USB outlets, Freddy vs. Jason, and, perhaps most importantly, buddy cop movies. We’re all drawn to po...
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Dancing Lady: Joan Crawford as Musical Star
When Joan Crawford was 6, she cut her feet badly after leaping over the front porch in an attempt to skip piano lessons. The doctor thought that she could never walk properly afterwards, but eight months and three operations later, she fully recovered and cont...
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Whole Wide World: Living in a Film
Charlie Kaufman once said, “I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night…” Who else but someone as imaginative as Kaufman to say this, the creator of such seemingly real and tangible worlds like the ones in Being John Malkovich and Synecdoc...
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The Celluloid Catwalk: Fashion on Film
Everything looks dreamy on the silver screen. Fashion on film then is the ultimate definition of glamour. As the great philosopher David Bowie has said, or rather, sung, “it’s big and it’s bland and it’s full of fear,” through the cinematic lens, clothes are n...
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The Savage Cinematic Beauty of Alexander McQueen
Striking compositions. Immaculate execution. Unapologetic provocations. It may sound like the work of a cinematic enfant terrible like Lars von Trier or Harmony Korine, but from the iconic bumsters to the horn adorned jackets to the infamous 12 inch scaled hee...
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The Road Less Traveled: Five Who Went Back to Nature
If you're a big believer of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, then abandoning all your possessions and heading back to nature is the only way to cure society of its ills. Modern life takes a leap forward with each passing decade, and sometimes, with each new technologica...
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Sex and Death on Film 101
Sexual education in North American schools is lacklustre to say the least, slowly progressing and occasionally spouting misinformation (it’s supposed to be HOW big?). As a result, many young people first learn about sex and related issues from movies and telev...
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