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The Balcony (10 posts found)
A new section of the theater where you’ll find another view of the silver screen. With lists, galleries, recommendations, and more, the view from above is always swell.
Film Critic of the Week: Keith Uhlich
Welcome to Film Critic of the Week, a weekly mini-cast where we pick the brains of our favorite film critics.
Today, we’ve got the estimable Keith Uhlich, who has written for Time Out New York, The L Magazine, The AV Club, To Be Continued, Slant, Revers...
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5 Essential Asian Soccer Films
Soccer lovers from the Middle East across Asia to the land Down Under have been engrossed by the happenings of the 2015 Asian Cup in Australia for much of this month. From Palestine's debut in the tournament to the expected dominance of Japan, there's been ple...
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Opening Acts 1/22/2015
Every day, Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
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Fact-Checking the Film: 'American Sniper' by Madison Vain. Ma...
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Under the Skin: 5 Reasons Why “Mysterious Skin” Should Be Required Teen Viewing
New Queer Wave iconoclast Gregg Araki established himself as an unapologetically abrasive director, willing to be as rough and harsh as possible when it came to approaching subjects of queerness, HIV/AIDS, and dysfunctional relationship. But with his 2004 film...
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Cine-Math: 5 Film Equations
Let it be known that I exist purely to subvert all of the Asian stereotypes: I quit karate, I can't speak a lick of Chinese, a quit violin, and, much to the chagrin of others', I can't do math for the life of me. So, what have I left other than the movies? Cin...
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Opening Acts 1/21/2015
Every day, Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
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1. Is ScarJo In ‘Ghost in the Shell’ A Kick-Ass Cyborg Superh...
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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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Opening Acts 1/20/2015
Every day, Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
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Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Wizard of Oz is most influentia...
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Crazy Cake Time: Celebrating David Lynch’s Birthday
It is time to celebrate the birthday of cinema’s most influential director of the bizarre. He chills our bones with overwhelming frights, haunts us with unjust happenings beneath beautiful surfaces, makes us laugh at quirky in-jokes, and warms us with heady ro...
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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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