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Martin Scorsese to Direct Ramones Biopic
Musical biopics are a tricky film to make, with most falling into trite idolization of their subjects and refusing to acknowledge the flaws. Then there's the whole process of getting the family estates to sign off on the films, and if and when they do it usual...
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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: “The Wind Rises”
"The wind is rising! ... We must try to live!"
~Paul Valéry
The Wind Rises may be classified as a "biopic," but it is less a document of a man than it is of a dream: beginning with its birth, progressing through its lifespan, and then finally waving a tearfu...
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Why It’s So Hard to Blame Gun Violence on the Movies
Earlier this week, Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday responded to the crimes of Elliot Rodger by writing a thoughtful op-ed about the pervasive influence of the systemic misogyny in Hollywood. She called out one film by name - Neighbors – which caused s...
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Ann Hornaday, Movies and Mass Shootings
Taxi Driver is considered one of the classics of Martin Scorsese's filmography, but when that title is mentioned most don't think of the film, they recall John Hinckley Jr. and his attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan. That association has undoub...
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Tomas Alfredson to Team With Martin Scorsese for “The Snowman”
An interesting collaboration of directors has come to light just now. Variety just dropped that Let The Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has boarded the adaptation of author Jo Nesbo's "The Snowman". Martin Scorsese flirted with directing the film fo...
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The Second Criterion: “The Last Temptation of Christ”
I was a hardcore Bible kid, growing up. From fourth to sixth grade, I went to a Baptist elementary school. After that, I went to a Baptist middle school. For high school, I was in a Catholic high school, Catholicism being my family's main religion and not near...
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Looking Back: “In This Our Life”
Suggested sub-subgenre: Female Melodramas by Macho Auteurs. In Autumn Leaves, Robert Aldrich bulldozed through weepie tropes with so much furious glee that the resulting Joan Crawford vehicle seemed to be unfolding in one of James Whale’s monster houses rather...
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Top 10 Christian-Themed Movies
With Son of God and God's Not Dead finding modest purchase at the box office (and considerable fruition in think pieces everywhere) and Darren Aronofsky's Noah ready and waiting to frustrate just about everybody, it would seem that Christians have a harder tim...
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How We Fell In Love With the Movies
'Tis the day of love, this February 14th, and thus we'll all be focusing on the loves that make our lives worth while, whether they exist or not. But no matter how many times your heart is broken by another person, you could at least always count on great movi...
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Weekend Box Office: ‘Frozen’ Closes Out Holiday Movie Season On Top
The Christmas/New Years holiday movie season drew to a close this weekend, with the kids going back to school and everyone returning to work tomorrow. Considering that there's an absolutely brutal cold front moving in to most of the upper part of the U.S. and ...
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