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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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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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Looking Back: ‘The Scarlet Empress’
In Looking Back, writer Andreas Stoehr highlights movies from the underexplored grottos of film history.
The first thing I notice about The Scarlet Empress (1934) is Marlene Dietrich's cheekbones. They're essential to the film, as essential as its chiaroscu...
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