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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.
Liam Neeson and Olivier Megaton On Taken 3
With only a few days left until the anticipated sequel, Taken 3, here are some new interviews with star Liam Neeson and director Olivier Megaton. In the interviews, the biggest question of course is why. Why come back to a franchise that was never supposed to ...
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Opening Acts 1/7/2015
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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Oscar Films and the Prison of Historical Accuracy by Bilge Eb...
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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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To Half and Half Not: The Films to Remember from 2010 – 2014
The end of the year is, undoubtedly, a time of reflection: what we’ve experienced, what we’ve learned, how many resolutions we broke and what we’re going to do to rectify that, etc. It is also the time of lists. Lists, lists, lists. The internet in mid to late...
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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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Opening Acts 1/6/2015
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.
For your reading enjoyment …
Fishes Out of Water: Surrealist Juxtapositions by Michael Pat...
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Definitive Geriaction Stars Past, Present, and Future
Liam Neeson has one of the strangest career arcs I’ve ever witnessed. Up until 2008, he was a highly regarded actor who typically appeared in dramatic and important fare. Then, at the ripe age of 56, with one swift neck snap in Taken, he became Hollywood’s mos...
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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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It Had to Be Her: Celebrating Diane Keaton’s Birthday
Diane Keaton may be best known for The Godfather and Annie Hall, but little do folks know that she once had the ambition to become a singer. She’s played them in movies from time to time, but I don’t know if we should hold our breaths for an album of standards...
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Video Essay: Style as Substance – The Style of Xavier Dolan
For the past year or so, I've vehemently defended the work of Xavier Dolan, the 25-year-old Quebecois director who recently won the Cannes Jury Prize for his fifth film, Mommy. The arguments against him are usually the same: his films are mawkish and maudlin, ...
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