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Striking Similarities: “Sully” and “Snowden” Share a Political Ethos
In their respective films, Oliver Stone and Clint Eastwood examine the concept of duty as going beyond title.
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Violence and the American Man
In the wake of another mass shooting, Omer M. Mozaffar looks at "American Sniper" and "Fruitvale Station" as disparate modern commentaries on American violence.
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 212: “The Rookie”
The crack of the bat, the smell of freshly mown grass, the sound of an umpire calling a strike on a pitch that is so far outside, how could that be a strike, you bum? HOW? Oh, sorry, just got into the heat of the moment, because it's the tail end of a very goo...
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The 19 Best Actors-Turned-Directors
There's no single path that leads to directing a film--some dive right behind the camera as their first job, others work up to it after years of toiling as assistant directors, and then others get the gig because of their work in front of the camera coupled wi...
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Hollywood’s Old Honchos: Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood
In a very special episode of the animated television series Archer, Burt Reynolds makes a guest appearance as himself playing the love interest of Malory Archer. Idolized by her son, the superagent Sterling Archer, Reynolds is portrayed affectionately as the e...
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Into the Wild Dual Career of Sean Penn
Actors inevitably change as they age, sometimes altering their screen personas dramatically in the process. After spending much of their early careers exuding restless energy, Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt became comfortable with stillness. Others, like Daniel Day-...
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The Artists of War
The darkness that comes from war can be viewed in many ways, seeping into our consciousness through different opinion and experience. That it remains a difficult genre not only for its content, but psychological effect, is telling as we live in a world that co...
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American Ambivalence: Sizing Up Clint Eastwood’s Late Style Aberration
Speaking to David Poland about Clint Eastwood’s take on his Hereafter script late in 2010, Peter Morgan admitted to some surprise at the film’s fast-track development from inception to realization, noting that the venerable director wanted to shoot his first d...
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Opening Acts 1/8/2014
Every day, Opening Acts highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Please share if you like what you see.
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David Cronenberg Says Rotten Tomatoes Is Wrecking Film Critic...
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“American Sniper”
Warning. Spoilers regarding real-life figures lay within.
In his career-best, the 2006 war saga Letters from Iwo Jima (the companion to Flags of our Fathers), Clint Eastwood zeroed in on the story of a Japanese baker-turned-soldier named Saigo (Kazunari Nin...
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