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High and Low Art: 6 Trashterpieces
“Trash entertainment” is a phrase that has meant different things at different times and to different people. Most think of the term in relation to high and low culture, and how low culture (the trash) imitates high. It’s also usually what people mean when the...
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Love Streams: 1/8/2014
Nothing beats dragging your heavily resistant friends to the movies, sliding into the semi-uncomfortable and questionably sticky seat, and dealing with the annoying texter three rows below you. For everything else, there’s MasterCard.
Or in this instance, the...
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Coens’ “Hail, Caesar!” Coming in 2016
If the Marvel Phase 3 announcement proved anything it's that it is never too early to start getting excited over a film coming out in the future. What has fans pumped today is news from Universal that the Coen Brothers' Hail, Caesar! will be hitting theatres i...
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2014 Gotham Awards Announced
The Gotham Awards are the earliest ceremony in awards season, and rather than focus on the some of the big-hitters later on in the year, they hold up some of the indie darlings already released in the year. Additionally, the Gotham nominators also recognize th...
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Mousterpiece Cinema, Episode 139: “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”
News team...assemble! ...What's that? Oh, right, we're not talking about Ron Burgundy and his anchormen friend this week, we're talking about The Avengers! OK, just one of the Avengers in his latest solo picture: Captain America: The Winter Soldier. (Of course...
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The World Is Ready For Female Leads, Is Hollywood?
It is time to give more of our blockbusters over to women. In 2014, five films featuring women as the leading role have won the box office on their opening weekend. For years, it was considered box office poison to have a woman lead to sell a film. So far this...
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Weekend Box Office: Luuuucyyyyyy!
A weak July ended with a relatively big bang; even though it was down 15 percent from the same frame last year, it was easily one of the bigger weekends of the month. Two star vehicles went head-to-head and the Scarlett Johansson-fronted Luc Besson action/sci-...
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In “Lucy,” Scarlett Johansson Accesses 100% Of Her Awesomeness
And now for something completely different: Luc Besson presents Cosmos. Wet blankets across the Internet will invariably find a reason to fault Lucy, Besson's latest, for leaning on urban legends and pseudo-science as the make-up of its basic conceit. If Neil ...
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“Avengers: Age of Ultron” Graces Entertainment Weekly Cover
Comic-con doesn't start for another week or so, but Entertainment Weekly has a first look at photos from Joss Whedon's upcoming Marvel team-up Avengers: Age of Ultron. Fans of the Avengers comics know that Hank Pym created Ultron, but with Ant-man not getting ...
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Jon Favreau’s “Chef” Not Thoroughly Cooked
The camera slowly pans over freshly washed vegetables glistening in an expensive looking wooden bowl. Slabs of steak shine under the lights until thrown onto a hissing skillet. Fruits are sliced and diced so carefully and exact, you know your meal is in the ha...
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