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10 Best Picture Nominees That Should Have Won
Star Wars was nominated for Best Picture. Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial and Avatar were all nominated for Best Picture, but failed to hold the statuette. Oscars rarely celebrate the box-office smash or sci-fi adventure film. They represen...
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The Man with the Golden Gun: Chekhov’s Guns in Film
Anton Chekhov was a real triple threat: while we all know him best for his accomplishments as a dramaturge and an author, he also practiced medicine while making his numerous artistic achievements on the side. “Medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is my ...
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Opening Acts 1/20/2015
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.
For your reading enjoyment …
Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Wizard of Oz is most influentia...
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Video Essay: Kevin B. Lee’s The Best Films of the Decade So Far
The people have spoken! Remember those half decade lists I was talking about and how the remarkable Kevin B. Lee started all this kerfuffle? Well, the esteemed video essayist has completed his daunting task in polling 290 film critics and cinephiles and the re...
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To Half and Half Not: The Films to Remember from 2010 – 2014
The end of the year is, undoubtedly, a time of reflection: what we’ve experienced, what we’ve learned, how many resolutions we broke and what we’re going to do to rectify that, etc. It is also the time of lists. Lists, lists, lists. The internet in mid to late...
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Top 6 Reel Political Moments
With Election Day here at last, we can finally set aside some time from the day to actually vote. When it's all said and done, go back home and reflect with some of these better politically-themed films and cartoons.
1) The Candidate (dir. Michael Ritchie)
B...
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Josh Brolin Joins Coens for “Hail Caesar!”
Josh Brolin loves playing an idiot for Joel and Ethan Coen, so it should come as no surprise that the newly named Avengers villain has signed on with George Clooney to star in Hail Caesar! Just to be clear Hail Caesar! is an original project written by the Coe...
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Top 10 Office Movies
With Mad Men coming back on the air for its (bifurcated) final season, and me returning to work after a wonderful weekend at the Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival, I've got offices on my mind. Luckily, the office is not an infrequent topic in cinemat...
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The 50 Best Movies of 2013
We thought that 2012 was a fantastic year for film, but 2013 turned out to be even better. Not even 50 places seems like quite enough to recognize every great movie that hit theaters over the past 12 months, but we've done our best to narrow it down. Nearly 30...
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