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Defanging the Unthinkable
Nathanael Hood writes about the two versions of "To Be Or Not To Be" and their distinctive timeliness in 2017.
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9 Spectacular Overlooked Movie Musicals
Some time ago, it dawned on me that there is no film genre I love as much as I love the musical. It's the perfect marriage of form and content - Kubrick once said that "film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of m...
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Top 10 Comedies About Infidelity
Ingmar Bergman once said, "With the risk of being misinterpreted, I say that fidelity often plays too great a role in a marriage." That may be, but it certainly plays almost no role in marriage on film, with hundreds of stories of cheating spouses causing all ...
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Top 10 Films of 1932
The limited release of The Grand Budapest Hotel this past weekend was catnip for those of us who are fans of either a) Wes Anderson, b) classic Hollywood cinema, or especially c) all of the above. With the film being set predominantly in 1932 (or at least an a...
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Top 10 Romantic Fantasy Films
As anyone who has watched nearly any animated Disney film knows, romance and fantasy fit splendidly together. The dizzying rapture of love manifests physically in elements that are very much not of this world. It becomes at once familiar and strange, frighteni...
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Top 10 Classic Star/Director Collaborations
With Leonardo DiCaprio & Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street attacking the box office, awards season, and cheap editorials nationwide, it's as good a time as any to consider those very special working relationships between a director and star that tr...
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