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Film Love is Blind: Our Cinematic Infatuations
Perhaps I say this because I live an insulated lifestyle, but I believe cinema has a power to bring out both the best and the very worst in us. You'll find a film that you adore and laud it loudly, but then you encounter someone with the opposite opinion, and ...
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The 20 Best Scenes of 2013
Last year wasn't just a strong year of film; it was also a year of such an eclectic variety of good films of all sorts. While there wasn't a whole lot to chew on in the mainstream American film landscape, the independent and foreign scenes were thriving with g...
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The New American Blockbuster Is Not So American
Laya Maheshwari examines how Hollywood blockbusters are now catering to international markets.
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A Defense of ‘Pacific Rim’ Along with Other Reflections
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When it comes to creating movies aimed at seasoned fans, most filmmakers are content to set their sights on remaking longtime existing entities with a firmly established canon. Whether they be superheroes, toys, or pop...
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Why Harvey Weinstein’s Neutering of Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Is An Insult To Us All
When I caught wind that Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean auteur behind complex genre masterworks The Host, Mother and Memories of Murder, had a new film coming out this year, it was enough to immediately become my most anticipated release of 2013. Bong is that k...
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Death by Hype, Hall H, and How James Mangold’s ‘The Wolverine’ Changed the Game
After Pacific Rim was released a few weeks ago it seemed to signal the peak of the summer blockbuster season. Pacific Rim was the last in a seemingly endless line of multimillion dollar films that the various studios have been promoting and cinephiles have bee...
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Guillermo Del Toro’s Rousing ‘Pacific Rim’ Is a Joyous Homage to Pacific Inspirations
Any Filipino who grew up as a kid in the early 80s will tell you about their love for giant robots. As a country that was once invaded by Japan, it can seem strange that Philippine culture would wholeheartedly embrace an invasion of mammoth-sized mechas during...
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Hainline’s 50 Most Anticipated Films of 2013
If you're like me, you have insane enthusiasm the mainstream and the independent. The monsters within and the literal monsters. The artsy and the fartsy. I've ranked the fifty films I'm most looking forward to this year, provided one line descriptions, and lis...
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