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We Need To Talk About Kevin (Smith)
Editor’s note: With the release of TUSK today, Boston film critics Sean Burns and Jake Mulligan thought it would be interesting to reflect on the films Kevin Smith. What follows is a candid conversation.
Jake Mulligan: We need to talk about Kevin Smith....
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Mean Girls and Bad Boys: The Messy Gender Politics of “Grease” in 5 Songs
Grease is the word. Its first iteration was as a stage musical, conceived by Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey, first appearing on stage in Chicago in 1971, and then on Broadway in 1972. With book, music, and lyrics by Jacobs and Warren, the two tackled teenage life...
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6 Passion Projects That Beat The Odds
Belle and Sebastian leader Stuart Murdoch wrote and directed God Help the Girl, an incredibly charming indie musical that has just hit theaters and VOD. This film was a passion project of his that had been in some state of development for at least ten years, a...
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With A Little Help From Our Friends
On the latest edition of our weekly column: whiteness in coming-of-age stories and late night TV, Julia Roberts' career, the death of adulthood, and more.
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TIFF Dispatch #1: “Foxcatcher”, “Clouds of Sils Maria”, and “Maps to the Stars”
So many films—regardless of their genre or origin—deal with the psychology of interpersonal discord that it’s scarcely worth mentioning them as some kind of classifiable phenomenon. But when you watch a variety of films that have little to do with each other—f...
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With A Little Help From Our Friends
On the latest edition of our weekly series, we bring you links to stories about clickbait, the New Beverly Cinema, Forrest Gump, film school, and more.
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7 Movies With the Exact Same Villain
Sometime around 2003, movies hit critical mass for a particular kind of adversary. Beyond a few simple shared traits, and even a reasonable number of examples, a mold began to emerge of extreme specificity of onscreen villainy. Far from revealing some screen...
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Let’s Go Backwards When Forward Fails: Past Informs Present in “Everything Old is New Again” From “All That Jazz”
Songs in the Key of Cinema is a bi-weekly look at the use of songs in film and how that music fits within the context of the film as a whole and a place where we’ll cover the moments in cinema that were music to our eyes and ears.
In Bob Fosse’s All That J...
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With A Little Help From Our Friends
In the latest edition of our weekly segment, Monica Castillo provides links to some of the best film and pop-culture writing around the web.
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Criterion Goes Pop
Criterion claims to collect "important contemporary and classic films." To fully do that, it's high time they accepted pop cinema.
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