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Top 15 Baffling Things About the AFI Lists
I have an in-no-way-constructive hobby of seriously hating on the American Film Institutes’ various Top 100 lists. Their initial 100 Years…100 Movies list from 1998 was decent enough – a fine collection of American films with pretty solid rankings. But in the ...
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Film Critic of the Week: Matt Zoller Seitz
Matt Zoller Seitz is the founder of Press Play (IndieWire) and The House Next Door (Slant Magazine), a contributor to RogerEbert.com, a TV critic for New York Magazine, and the author of the upcoming book “The Wes Anderson Collection.”
His detailed analyses...
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Top 15 Movies Under 85 Minutes
Although I find myself typically in defense of the long film, there’s something to be said for a great film that takes up very little of your time. The following movies only have two things in common: they’re remarkable, and they all clock in under an hour and...
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With a Little Help From Our Friends
Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends dedicates time highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
For your reading enjoyment …
Chaz Ebert writes about how much she misses Roger's weekly reviews. She...
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Top 10 NC-17 Rated Films
In America, the NC-17 film rating carries a lot of baggage. Because of the nature of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) – in all its absurd censorship – if a film is rated NC-17, it is more or less dead theatrically. The marketing for an NC-17 ra...
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With A Little Help From Our Friends
Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends dedicates time highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
For your reading enjoyment …
The one and only Matt Singer was thinking about Project Runway while wa...
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Top 10 Worst Movie Dads
Fathers are supposed to care, provide, love, and so on. Not these fellas. Instead, these cinematic patriarchs drink, kill, molest – you name it, all to unnerving degrees. Like a train-wreck, you can’t help but watch in fascination and horror. And this is a dif...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (4/22/13–4/28/13)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1.) Peppermint Candy
The second film from internationally acclaimed Korean director Lee Chang-Dong, Peppermint Candy begins with...
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With a Little Help From Our Friends
Every Monday With A Little Help From Our Friends dedicates time highlighting the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet.
For your reading enjoyment …
Today we begin not with a link not to an article, but to Edward Douglas...
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Top 10 Al Pacino Rants
No one rants like Al Pacino. And the topic matters little. Ranging from potential prison sentences, a female’s derriere, the absence of God, the losing of a real estate contract – there’s no subject that doesn’t get Pacino’s blood pumping. Some of the picks be...
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