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Alive and Amplified: The Best of Scarlett Johansson
Call her Lucy, Janet Leigh, Mary Boleyn, Barbara Sugarman, Silken Floss, or Nola Rice; just don’t call her ScarJo. Scarlett Johansson has been acting since 1994, when she made her debut in Rob Reiner’s North at ten years old, but in the 2010s she has made hers...
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High and Low Art: 6 Trashterpieces
“Trash entertainment” is a phrase that has meant different things at different times and to different people. Most think of the term in relation to high and low culture, and how low culture (the trash) imitates high. It’s also usually what people mean when the...
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The Look of Lust: The Posters of BDSM
As the years go by, more and more films are delving into the realm of what the MPAA would call, "Strange Behavior". Featured below are some of the most well known films in the genre of BDSM as well as one of the newest entries into the club, The Duke of Burgun...
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Calling The Shots: 3 Defining Images from Terry Gilliam’s Filmography
This week finally sees the home release of Terry Gilliam’s latest effort, The Zero Theorem. The film itself is debatable, but it does lie in the better camp of Gilliam’s films for me personally for one reason mainly. There was one shot in the film that transce...
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Femme Fatale Attraction: The Best of Eva Green
From getting her acting start in Bertolucci film The Dreamers, Eva Green has spent the last decade on some of Hollywood's biggest movie sets working with Ridley Scott and Robert Rodriguez to becoming a Bond girl. As her latest turn in White Bird in a Blizzard ...
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Remake My Day: Michael Mann
Stoic loners, secret lifestyles, blurred moral lines, and slick action; these are the things that Michael Mann films are made of. Mann’s recurring proclivities as director have allowed him to endure and flourish in his storied career, measured in decades and p...
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5 Insights into “Miami Vice” from Michael Mann’s Audio Commentary
First and foremast if you’re a cinephile and particularly a Michael Mann fan, you’re doing yourself a disservice if you haven’t had a chance to listen to his erudite and insightful director’s commentaries. The best of his crop by far is the commentary of the e...
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5 Directors Who Got Snubbed While Their Films Got Nominated
It’s that time of year again, yes, Oscar season. And much love was bestowed on white people and more specifically idiosyncratic white men. But so be it. The Director category looks fairly game this year, if not completely surprising, with nominations going to ...
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(Death) Scenes from a Marriage: 7 Films to Watch After “Gone Girl”
David Fincher and Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl provided countless thinkpieces with their adaptation of Flynn’s bestselling thriller, and much of it wrangled with what exactly the film was trying to say about marriage and about gender. Some called it the most femi...
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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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