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On the Surprisingly Personal Remake of “The Manchurian Candidate”
Kenji Fujishima on the 2004 remake of "The Manchurian Candidate."
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Watch This: Spike Lee and Ray Allen Talk “He Got Game” for ESPN
In the first of Spike Lee's Lil Joints for ESPN's 30 for 30 division, Spike Lee reminisces on his landmark film He Got Game with its star (and active NBA player) Ray Allen as he plays a game wearing the jersey with Jesus Shuttlesworth, his character's name, on...
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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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Weekend Box Office: Star Power Still Exists
It seems like so long ago when A-list stars could open a movie all by themselves, all the way back there in the 1990's. And yet, a couple of those stars still survive and are still able to open movies on their name alone. One such star, Denzel Washington, had ...
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“The Equalizer”
The Equalizer is many things — grotesquely violent, relentlessly grim, proudly empty-headed — but maybe its most notable aspect is the way it messily jams its influences together in an unsuccessful attempt to become a good movie by trying to look and sound lik...
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Seven Deadly Sins of Cinema
Kevin Spacey's immortal turn as the sin-obsessed John Doe took Seven and launched it into the stratosphere of crime classic. The way he dispatched with sinners so heartlessly and with conviction lead me to ponder what others movie characters would have drawn h...
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Top 10 Stuck on Transportation Movies
All movies aim to transport us, but only a few do so by such literal means. In honor of the upcoming Liam Neeson thriller Non-Stop, here are, as far as I'm concerned, the top ten films that take place, at least mostly, within the confines of a single mode of t...
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Discussing ‘2 Guns’: A Passable Washington and Wahlberg Action-Comedy Joint
2 Guns, the new action-packed Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg joint, is now playing in theaters across the country. Two of our writers, being the dedicated cinephiles they are, attended a screening and decided that an informal discussion might lead to more...
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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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