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Features (10 posts found)
The Needle Drop – You Don’t Really Care For Music, Do You?: “Hallelujah” in Watchmen
The overarching theme of this column being the relationship between a song, a given movie scene, and that scene's relation to the given film as a whole, this week's selection is an instance when the song choice did not work. The 2009 screen adaptation of Watch...
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Reverse Pop Culture Primer: Die Hard vs. Every Reference to ‘Yippee-Ki-Yay, Motherf–ker’
Welcome to Reverse Pop Culture Primer! Every week I take a famous catchphrase, punchline, or spoiler that I learned from another part of pop culture without ever seeing the movie it references. How does knowing the joke backwards affect my experience of the mo...
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The Invisible Cinema: Lonely Boy
The Invisible Cinema is a biweekly feature that examines the multifaceted, frequently overlooked canon of Canadian classic cinema.
Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroiter’s Lonely Boy—an ostensibly “behind-the-scenes” National Film Board (NFB) documentary short about...
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The Darren Aronofsky Retrospective: Black Swan
The Movie Mezzanine Filmmaker Retrospective series takes on an entire body of work–be it director’s, screenwriter’s, or otherwise–and analyzes each portion of the filmography. By the final post of a retrospective, there will be a better understanding of the fi...
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This Week in the Death of Cinema: Cars Out of Planes!
Sometimes it feels like there’s a new article every week decrying the death of cinema. I thought about that and decided, “why not make that feeling true?” So here it is, a weekly column chronicling the slow demise of the art form we love so much.
Cinema’s s...
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Battle of Directors: Wes Anderson vs. Quentin Tarantino
Battle of Directors is a weekly column that pits two filmmakers against one another, sheds light on their respective filmographies, and then asks readers to state which director they prefer. Thoughtful discourse and discussion is encouraged and desired. Enjoy!...
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Movie Mettle: Five Ridiculous Movie Premises To Test Your Limits
Movie Mettle is a weekly column for moviegoers with weak constitutions. Wish you had the balls to sit through the goriest of horror movies? Want to build up your resistance to weepy rom-coms? Each week we’ll give you a range of five movies that will test your ...
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Classy Movies for Classy People: Sport Edition
Welcome to Classy Movies for Classy People. You are reading this, so we shall assume you are a classy sort. Why else would you click on an article specifically labeled for “Classy People?” If you are not classy, I please ask you to leave. We’ll have no lowlife...
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Runyon’s 20 Most Anticipated Films of Sundance 2013
Like the majority of movie-buffs, I wasn't able to go to Sundance. One of these days, perhaps my dream will become a reality, but this year it was not meant to be.
In the meantime, all I could do was fawn over my Twitter feed to see what movies were getting...
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Something Old, Something New: Déjà Vu / Resident Evil: Retribution
Something Old, Something New is a weekly feature that creates a double feature with a film released in the last few years and an older movie. These films contain aesthetic, narrative and/or thematic parallels that can erase decades of separation and show how i...
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