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All posts by Scott Nye
9 Spectacular Overlooked Movie Musicals
Some time ago, it dawned on me that there is no film genre I love as much as I love the musical. It's the perfect marriage of form and content - Kubrick once said that "film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of m...
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8 Movies About Summers As An Adult
Summer on film is, understandably, largely portrayed as a time for young people. School's out, sun's out, time to grow and mature while retaining minimal commitments. But summer comes to mean quite a different thing as an adult, retaining though it might the t...
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8 Dynamic Female Felons in Movies
If you've spent this past weekend devouring the entire new season of Orange is the New Black (I'm only about four episodes in myself), and are eager to see other awesome representations of women who take to the criminal lifestyle, here are some good places to ...
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7 Great Movies-Within-Movies
It's hard enough to make one movie, on that we can agree. But it always adds a little extra fun when, within that film, a whole other movie is shown, at least in part. These aren't instances of characters watching real films (a la The Passion of Joan of Arc in...
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7 Great Double-Performance Films
Though the theatre certainly has seen its share of actors playing multiple roles - as much a cost-saving measure as an artistic decision, I'm sure - the possibilities have really opened up over the decades on film. Technological developments have made it easie...
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9 Satiric Portraits of the Television Industry
With another year of television upfronts pulling the plug on much-beloved shows (Community, Trophy Wife, and Enlisted fans, among others, feeling the heat this year), it's worth remembering (or at least telling yourself) that the television industry is a lot o...
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John Slattery Gets Lost in “God’s Pocket”
It's fitting, perhaps, that, as far as I can tell, there is no such neighborhood as God's Pocket. It's a literary device. I read that the novel upon which John Slattery's directorial debut is based sets its action in Philadelphia, where its writer, Pete Dexter...
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8 Great Nurses in Movies
You may or may not be aware, but this week is National Nursing Week here in North America (concluding with International Nurses Day on May 12th), so be extra nice to the men and women who take care of you long after the doctor's gone home. Should you be fortun...
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Top Ten “Too Old for This S***” Movies
In a medium as youth-obsessed as cinema, even stories of aging often address the problem of simply not being young anymore. This can take a variety of forms, the most potent of which often involves a character being forced to face their actions as they realize...
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Top 10 Comedies About Infidelity
Ingmar Bergman once said, "With the risk of being misinterpreted, I say that fidelity often plays too great a role in a marriage." That may be, but it certainly plays almost no role in marriage on film, with hundreds of stories of cheating spouses causing all ...
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