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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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Seven Deadly Sins of Cinema
Kevin Spacey's immortal turn as the sin-obsessed John Doe took Seven and launched it into the stratosphere of crime classic. The way he dispatched with sinners so heartlessly and with conviction lead me to ponder what others movie characters would have drawn h...
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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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Inglorious Bastard: The Horror of “Singin’ in the Rain” and “A Clockwork Orange”
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.
I might have been eight or...
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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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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: “Ponyo”
At this point in the retrospective, Studio Ghibli has been somewhat capitalizing on its international success by choosing distinctly western fictions to adapt, their last two films Howl's Moving Castle and Tales From Earthsea being adaptations of distinctly Br...
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Top 10 Office Movies
With Mad Men coming back on the air for its (bifurcated) final season, and me returning to work after a wonderful weekend at the Turner Classic Movies Classic Film Festival, I've got offices on my mind. Luckily, the office is not an infrequent topic in cinemat...
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The Studio Ghibli Retrospective: “Tales From Earthsea”
As has already been documented on the Retrospective, I wasn't as big a fan of Isao Takahata's Pom Poko or Hiroyuki Morita's The Cat Returns as many others were; but neither of them were explicitly "bad" movies. While I wasn't particularly amused by Pom Poko's ...
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