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Looking Back: ‘It Happened One Night’
We get so used to some movies simply being around that our own praise for them may itself become a cliché. The minute It Happened One Night is brought up, a handful of old chestnuts gets inevitably evoked: its classic status as the ultimate romantic comedy, it...
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Adapting a Wedding Website Into a Movie is Totally A Thing That is Happening
If you want to get a film project greenlighted in 2013, consider not writing a movie at all. Instead, make something else. Anything else, really, it doesn't actually matter. A board game, a theme park ride, an action figure--all now viable sources for film fra...
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Justin Zackham On The Universal Truth That Helped Him Write Romantic Comedy The Big Wedding
Hollywood rumor has it that Zackham wrote The Bucket List in two weeks, so when I got to interview the screenwriter -- and first-time director -- of course I had to ask how long The Big Wedding took. He laughed and said that reports of his speedy writing had b...
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Dueling Takes on The Big Wedding: Color-By-Numbers Rom-Com With Surprisingly Dark Shading
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With the romantic comedy getting increasingly tedious, recent entries seem to respond by either going back to basics or pushing the limits of the formulaic story into an almost meta commentary. The former describes Save the Date, one of my favorite mov...
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Movie Mettle: 5 Unrealistic Movie Musical Numbers To Test Your Limits
Movie Mettle is a weekly column for moviegoers with weak constitutions. Wish you had the balls to sit through the goriest of horror movies? Want to build up your resistance to weepy rom-coms? Each week we’ll give you a range of five movies that will test your ...
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