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6 Recent Movies With Wasted Premises
Sometimes, people get fantastic and brilliant ideas. Occasionally, these people have the resources and wherewithal in order to see their idea come to pure fruition, a successful expression of an inspired vision. More often than not, unfortunately, either the p...
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7 Troubled Productions That Ended Up Being Great Anyway
By now, the fact that Richard Linklater’s Boyhood was shot over twelve years is essentially a common household piece of trivia. Of course, this longevity was by design - it tells the story of a family over the course of as many years as a couple’s son grows up...
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10 Films Mishandled by the MPAA
Firstly, you’ll notice that I am not Scott Nye. He has moved on to bigger and better things, so I hope I can bring half as much insight and fun to these lists as he did.
The ratings board for the Motion Picture Association of America is a fickle organization...
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9 Spectacular Overlooked Movie Musicals
Some time ago, it dawned on me that there is no film genre I love as much as I love the musical. It's the perfect marriage of form and content - Kubrick once said that "film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of m...
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8 Movies About Summers As An Adult
Summer on film is, understandably, largely portrayed as a time for young people. School's out, sun's out, time to grow and mature while retaining minimal commitments. But summer comes to mean quite a different thing as an adult, retaining though it might the t...
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8 Dynamic Female Felons in Movies
If you've spent this past weekend devouring the entire new season of Orange is the New Black (I'm only about four episodes in myself), and are eager to see other awesome representations of women who take to the criminal lifestyle, here are some good places to ...
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7 Great Movies-Within-Movies
It's hard enough to make one movie, on that we can agree. But it always adds a little extra fun when, within that film, a whole other movie is shown, at least in part. These aren't instances of characters watching real films (a la The Passion of Joan of Arc in...
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7 Great Double-Performance Films
Though the theatre certainly has seen its share of actors playing multiple roles - as much a cost-saving measure as an artistic decision, I'm sure - the possibilities have really opened up over the decades on film. Technological developments have made it easie...
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9 Satiric Portraits of the Television Industry
With another year of television upfronts pulling the plug on much-beloved shows (Community, Trophy Wife, and Enlisted fans, among others, feeling the heat this year), it's worth remembering (or at least telling yourself) that the television industry is a lot o...
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