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Weekend Box Office: “Lone Survivor” Dominates
Ah, January, that magical time of year when the theater offerings are on the complete opposite spectrums of quality; the gradually expanding Oscar potentials that had limited December releases, and the movies the studios need to dump quietly into theaters to f...
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Film Influencing Fashion: How Consumers Are Staying On-Trend
The return of something thought long gone in men's fashion has resurfaced thanks to the work of costume designer Casey Storm in Spike Jonze's Her, where star Joaquin Phoenix rocks high-waisted trousers. Something familiar to women as a now-stable trend with ev...
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Birthday Wishes: The One True God, Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage, born 1964, is 50 today.
Academy Award-winning actor, star of plenty of great films, star of more crappy films than dozens of actors combined, Internet legend, an endless source of memes... there's very little that can be said about Mr. Cage th...
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Kristian Sensini, Music on “Rocks in My Pockets”
Earlier this month The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced a shortlist (which was in actuality, a very long list) of 114 scores in contention for Best Original Score. On that list was Italian artist Kristian Sensini, responsible for the love...
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What The “Love Actually” Wars Are Really About
The state of the rom-com, and why people are still arguing about the film 10 years later.
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Hollywood’s Struggle For Gender Equality is Improving But Far From Over
Women are making important strides in the filmmaking scene, but there's still a deeply-ingrained gender bias.
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Defending Spike Lee’s ‘Oldboy’
Spike Lee's remake of Park Chan-wook's Oldboy was met with a largely negative response last week and many fans claimed that it was just Hollywood at work again tearing down a revered foreign film just for the money. Money is a motivating factor in a lot of Hol...
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Birthday Wishes: Lucy Liu
Happy 45th birthday to Lucy Liu, one of the most groundbreaking females in the action film genre -- and probably real life, too. Liu's contributions to film and television have made her a standout across the board, from comedy to drama, but her life as an acti...
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AIDS In Cinema Left Out In The Cold
Highlighted by amfAR’s Cannes Film Festival fundraiser in May and increased publicity around December 1, HIV/AIDS is no longer that taboo disease no one cares to talk about. On this day for the last 25 years, World AIDS Day has made a concerted effort to educa...
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Birthday Wishes: Mark Margolis DING DING DING
Mark Margolis, born 1939, is 74 today. An indomitable character actor whose career has spanned some 36 years, his presence has been felt in numerous films and television shows. Though he's been around for almost four decades, his most successful and prominent ...
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