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My Favorite Movie Dads
Here is a video tribute to my favorite fatherly moments in cinema. I chose them for no particular reason other than the way they personally struck me. My father, Luis Mirasol Jr., passed away before the end of the last century, so my choices can't help but sho...
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The “World” As He Knows It: “Whole Wide World”, Perspective, and “Stranger Than Fiction”
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 Marc Forster’s Stra...
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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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Love, Ostentatiously: The Obsessive Infatuation of “Bang Bang” & “Pass This On” in “Heartbeats”
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.
It’s intoxicating. It has...
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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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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: “From Up On Poppy Hill”
As we've already established, Goro Miyazaki's Tales From Earthsea was Studio Ghibli's first disaster. Despite making lots of money at the Japanese box office, it also had the much more affecting consequence of being their first critically reviled film. Having ...
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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: “The Secret World of Arrietty”
It's strange how much of a difference an English dub can make. That's how I watched The Secret World of Arietty when I first saw it two years ago, and I found it to be one of the Studio's lesser entries. Having watched it a second time for this piece, in its o...
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Looking Back: “Keeper of the Flame”
Think of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn together, and battle-of-the-sexes comic snap promptly springs to mind. Cherished by cinephiles for the warm and tart badinage of Woman of the Year, Adam’s Rib and Pat and Mike, their onscreen collaboration endured a...
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She Thinks, Therefore She Becomes: The Catalytic Nature of “Don’t Think” in “Black Swan”
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.
“The only person standing...
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