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Top 5 TIFF People’s Choice Award Winners
The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 4 to September 14 this year, featuring movies like Foxcatcher, Maps to the Stars, Clouds of Sils Maria and Rosewater (to name just a few). Countless big, award-winning hits have come out of the Toront...
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Cynthia Rothrock, Hong Kong Action Films, and Expendable Women
Michael Mirasol talks to the venerable female actress and muses on the state of women in action films.
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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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7 Movies I’ve Seen More Times Than I Can Count
I think anyone that loves movies has some that they’ve seen a million times, give or take. These may not be their favourite films, and sometimes they may not even be particularly great ones, but for one reason or another, you’ve revisited them time and time ag...
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Fight, Not Flight: The Sound and Fury of “Fight the Power” in “Do the Right Thing”
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.
Twenty-five years ago, Be...
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With A Little Help From Our Friends
Work on "Let's Be Cops," Robin Williams, Lauren Bacall, Andy Warhol, Lois Lowry, and more at our weekly roundup of great writing.
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10 Memorable Closing Shots
There is a particular art to a final shot. Every shot in a film is important -- it’s one that didn’t end up on the cutting room floor, so it is inherently significant, though perhaps not extraordinary. Any one of these shots can be truly dazzling in any number...
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Robin Williams: A Joyous, Liberating Force of Cinema
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It has nearly been a week since Robin Williams has passed away, and countless tributes (very much deserved) have poured forth since. Many have remembered him for his comedic genius, his acting prowess and his selfless gener...
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With A Little Help From Our Friends
Every week, With a Little Help from Our Friends highlights the best pieces of writing on film, television, and literature published around the Internet. Check out the links, and feel free to share more good stories in the comment section.
For your reading enj...
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Out of the Cave: The Dark Magic of “O Children” and “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part I”
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.
While JK Rowling’s seminal...
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