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Wait Until Dark: 9 Unconventional Scary Movies
Watching horror movies is a standard and exciting Halloween tradition for many. But sometimes rewatching the same old films can get a little boring. You can certainly try to shake things up by watching something new or foreign, like Hausu or an early Cronenber...
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Top 5 David Fincher Movie Moments
David Fincher's new film, Gone Girl, is his latest adaptation of a populist novel (after Fight Club and The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo), this time written by Gillian Flynn. In a classic use of the unreliable narrator, we follow Nick Dunne (played in the film ...
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Top 5 Movie Mathematicians
Alan Turing helped the Allies win World War II, and made enough significant contributions to mathematics, computer science, technology, philosophy and artificial intelligence to have influenced countless subsequent people in each field. Graham Moore’s screenpl...
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6 Passion Projects That Beat The Odds
Belle and Sebastian leader Stuart Murdoch wrote and directed God Help the Girl, an incredibly charming indie musical that has just hit theaters and VOD. This film was a passion project of his that had been in some state of development for at least ten years, a...
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7 Movies With the Exact Same Villain
Sometime around 2003, movies hit critical mass for a particular kind of adversary. Beyond a few simple shared traits, and even a reasonable number of examples, a mold began to emerge of extreme specificity of onscreen villainy. Far from revealing some screen...
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Top 5 TIFF People’s Choice Award Winners
The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 4 to September 14 this year, featuring movies like Foxcatcher, Maps to the Stars, Clouds of Sils Maria and Rosewater (to name just a few). Countless big, award-winning hits have come out of the Toront...
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7 Movies I’ve Seen More Times Than I Can Count
I think anyone that loves movies has some that they’ve seen a million times, give or take. These may not be their favourite films, and sometimes they may not even be particularly great ones, but for one reason or another, you’ve revisited them time and time ag...
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10 Memorable Closing Shots
There is a particular art to a final shot. Every shot in a film is important -- it’s one that didn’t end up on the cutting room floor, so it is inherently significant, though perhaps not extraordinary. Any one of these shots can be truly dazzling in any number...
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5 Movies Influenced By David Lynch’s “Twin Peaks”
Twin Peaks is one of the most influential television shows of all-time, having inspired countless subsequent series and effectively changing the way TV is made and how culture understands and interacts with it. Thanks to David Lynch, Mark Frost, the other writ...
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8 Great Modern Films in Black & White
Films have been in color, in one way or another, since nearly the beginning of the medium. From meticulously hand-painted prints like in the films of Georges Méliès to additive color systems like Kinemacolor in the early 1900s, black and white has never been e...
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