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Features (10 posts found)
Short Stuff: Moving Interspecies Romance in Ian Samuels’ ‘Caterwaul’
In a world of features, short films rarely get much attention. Yet the best five minute shorts usually contain more originality and creativity than your average Hollywood blockbuster. That’s why we’re launching Short Stuff, a weekly profile on a promising shor...
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The Darren Aronofsky Retrospective: ‘Requiem for a Dream’
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 ...
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Reverse Pop Culture Primer: Alfred Hitchcock vs. ‘High Anxiety’
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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Shelf Life: Graveyard of Honor (Takashi Miike, 2002)
Shelf Life is a weekly feature that selects a film currently on DVD/Blu-Ray for review.
Takashi Miike’s freewheeling genre-hopping and jaw-droppingly prolific rate of production give neophytes so many access points that there almost may as well be none at a...
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Tom Hooper Directs Your Favourite Movie
Everyone hates Tom Hooper. They hate his new movie, Les Misérables. They hate his stupid face. But most of all, people hate the way Hooper frames (or doesn't frame) his shots. You see, Mr. Hooper knows what an auteur is and he wants to be recognized as one. Th...
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Movie Mettle: 5 Weepy Films 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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Battle of Directors: Woody Allen vs. Charlie Chaplin
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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Hainline’s 50 Most Anticipated Films of 2013
If you're like me, you have insane enthusiasm the mainstream and the independent. The monsters within and the literal monsters. The artsy and the fartsy. I've ranked the fifty films I'm most looking forward to this year, provided one line descriptions, and lis...
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Something Old, Something New: The Last Temptation of Christ / Lincoln
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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With A Little Help From Our Friends
With A Little Help From Our Friends is dedicated to highlighting the best pieces of writing on film published around the Internet. Now, for your reading pleasure ....
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Vadim Rizov's provides eleven tips on how to write fiery ne...
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