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DVD Review: “Run of the Arrow”
The problem with race as a subject in Hollywood is that the complexities of systemic oppression are fundamentally incompatible with the simplification necessary for narrative-driven filmmaking, where the priority of story resolution often results in laughably ...
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Redone and Dumber: 5 Unnecessary Remakes
A lot of remakes get a bad wrap. There are some wonderful stories that for whatever reason (setting, format, an enduring quality) that yearn to be revisited. Michael Mann's L.A Takedown needed to be made into Heat; Brian De Palma and Al Pacino famously revisit...
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Definitive Geriaction Stars Past, Present, and Future
Liam Neeson has one of the strangest career arcs I’ve ever witnessed. Up until 2008, he was a highly regarded actor who typically appeared in dramatic and important fare. Then, at the ripe age of 56, with one swift neck snap in Taken, he became Hollywood’s mos...
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TIFF Review – “Electric Boogaloo”: Shooting Nostalgia Out of a Cannon
The hexagonal Cannon Group logo should be familiar to anyone who wasted their 80’s-era adolescence at the movie theater. Its appearance onscreen became so ubiquitous in Reagan-era America that the mere sight of it evoked memories of an old friend coming to vis...
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History of Film: “Once Upon a Time in the West”
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The English have Shakespeare, the French have Molière, the Russians have Chekhov, the Argentines have Borges, but the Western is ours.
- Robert Duvall
The Western may be the only art form entirely specific to a time and p...
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