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Back to Basics in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
The Star Wars prequels are failures for many, endlessly catalogued reasons, but among the most egregious is the reliance on volumes of exposition to establish background and intervening details. Instead of letting actors suggest individual and collaborative hi...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 228: “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”
Friends, the time has finally come. Anticipation has hit a fever pitch. Crowds are lining up around the block just to see the result of years of buildup. Yes, friends, you know what we're talking about. It's the battle to end all 2015 battles: is Gabe about to...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Lucasfilm Bonus Episode Six: “The Star Wars Holiday Special”
Gather 'round, everyone. Step up close, and get close to all your friends and family. There's no better time than now to celebrate the greatest holiday of all. No, not Christmas. Not Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa, or Ramadan. No, it's time to celebrate Life Day! You kn...
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“Listen to Me Marlon” Is A Worthy Tribute to Brando
You could thumb through a thesaurus all day and still not find sufficient hyperbole to describe Marlon Brando's impact on the craft of acting. A prize pupil of Stella Adler, who brought the Stanislavsky Method to America, Brando blew it all up. Overnight, the ...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Lucasfilm Bonus Episode Five: The Original “Star Wars” Trilogy
May the Third be with you! No, wait, hang on, that's not right. May the Fifth be with you! Hmm...still sounds funky. Oh, right, May the Fourth be with you! And what better way to celebrate this day than a two-hour discussion of the trilogy that started it all?...
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Why Michelle Pfeiffer Deserves a Career Comeback
Nearly every year brings news of a comeback or return-to-form for a major film actor. Last year’s Birdman brought renewed appreciation and a long-overdue Oscar nomination to Michael Keaton. Bruce Dern got a late-career highlight the year before with Nebraska. ...
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“The Age of Adaline”
There’s an endearing scene midway through The Age of Adaline, the new time-hopping romantic drama starring Blake Lively, in which two lovers swoon in the back of a 1930s convertible at an abandoned movie theater, marveling at the constellation of phosphorescen...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Lucasfilm Bonus Episode Three: Three “Indiana Jones” Films
Well, friends, it's that time again. You've brought the podcast to another threshold on Facebook, and so it's up to Josh and Gabe to deliver another bonus episode. As promised, once the show passed 400 Likes, your heroic co-hosts would tackle three more films ...
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“The Expendables 3” A Smooth, Predictable Remix of Past Action Films
"We're like children with arthritis,” Sylvester Stallone joked during a press conference in Cannes earlier this May. No offense to the youth, but not many of us “kids” would not be able to do half of what the kick-ass grandpas are doing in The Expendables 3, t...
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“The Expendables 3” Trailer Reloads
I can feel my testosterone levels rising as I write this. The full-length trailer for The Expendables 3 has been released, and it's got me ready to fight. Seriously, come at me. I'm a massive fan of these films because I'm a massive fan of ridiculous action fi...
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