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The Male Gaze and Criticism
It's easy to forget sometimes that film/television critics are a homogeneous group (white men predominantly). A group of males that spend a majority of their time discussing their favorite shows and movies, and sometimes debating when consensus isn't had. Thes...
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The Golden Globes: Perception vs. Reality in Awards Season
For those with a healthy obsession over awards season, The Golden Globes are of great interest-- not because of any great respect held for the trophy itself, but rather for its potential function as a catalyst for increased/decreased buzz heading down the stre...
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The 50 Best Movies of 2013
We thought that 2012 was a fantastic year for film, but 2013 turned out to be even better. Not even 50 places seems like quite enough to recognize every great movie that hit theaters over the past 12 months, but we've done our best to narrow it down. Nearly 30...
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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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Deconstructing DiCaprio: A Look Back at ‘Shutter Island’ and ‘Inception’
It was by tackling two unreliable protagonists that the actor was able to mature to where he is now.
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‘The Wolf of Wall Street’: Sex, Lies, and Lemons
Martin Scorsese’s pictures wade through the darkness of the human soul, but rarely has his viewpoint been as bleak – as hopeless, really – as it is in The Wolf of Wall Street. The man, one of the American cinema’s living national treasures, has built a cinemat...
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Birthday Wishes: Martin Scorsese Is 71 Today
The one and only Marty Scorsese (I can call him Marty) is 71 today. Despite being one of American cinema's most legendary directors, Scorsese didn't win a Best Director Oscar until 2006's The Departed. Some of his most acclaimed films are Taxi Driver (1976), G...
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Birthday Wishes: Leonardo DiCaprio
Now that we've piqued your curiosity with this Birthday Wishes post, do we have your attention if we tell you it's Leonardo DiCaprio's 39th today? There is a more than likely chance that he is spending it on a yacht with a supermodel somewhere that none of us ...
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Birthday Wishes: Matthew McConaughey (44)
Alright alright alright everybody. Please bust out your bongos and just relax for a moment. Today is Matthew McConaughey's 44th birthday. McConaughey has become one of the most versatile actors of our time, able to play the golden-haired leading man in many a ...
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Call To Action: Bring Back Intermissions
During Hollywood's heyday in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s when long-form epics were all the rage, films, especially the higher-grossing ones, would run over three hours long. Lawrence of Arabia, the poster child for movies with intermissions, was aided tremendous...
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