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With a Little Help From Our Friends: Sex In Cinema, ‘Breaking Bad’ Finale, and More
Every week With a Little Help from Our Friends dedicates time to highlight the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet. Share more good stories in the comment section.
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Mike Ryan of The Huffingt...
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Top 10 Sports Films Of All Time
It’s exactly that time of year. Major League Baseball is nearing their postseason, both hockey and basketball are on the horizon, and with professional and college level football in full swing, it’s Fall and it’s sports season. And throughout cinema history, s...
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Film Critic of the Week: Sam Adams
When Matt Singer left CriticWire this past July it was clear that whoever assumed his position had to be not only talented, but prolific. So who better to replace Matt than a journalist who manages to write for The Dissolve, A.V. Club, Time Out New York, Slate...
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The Penny-Pinching Cinephile (9/20/13–9/26/13)
Welcome to The Penny-Pinching Cinephile, a weekly spotlight of the best free flicks on the web. ‘Cuz sometimes you gotta eat.
1.) Benny's Video
Before either version of Funny Games, Michael Haneke made an even chillier portrait of a teenage killer, the s...
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With a Little Help From Our Friends
Every week With a Little Help from Our Friends dedicates time to highlight the best pieces of writing on film and television published around the Internet. Share more good stories in the comment section.
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Nathan Rabin continues hi...
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Monday Morning Discourse: Does Festival Hype Help or Hurt?
About a week ago, during the time the Telluride Film Festival was in full swing and TIFF was just getting started, I noticed a few tweets and sentiments bemoaning the rapturous responses to films like 12 Years a Slave and Gravity, implying that they would be t...
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Film Critic of the Week: Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
I (like many) was introduced to Ignatiy Vishnevetsky when Roger Ebert hired the poignant film critic to co-host Ebert Presents, a public television show dedicated to discussing films in an intelligent and entertaining manner. The show was short-lived, never re...
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10 Great Labor Day Movies
Growing up, Labor Day was just an excuse to have a long weekend and avoid school. But after my first job, which involved the weekly cleaning of a truck warehouse, I began to have serious respect for the working man. Since then, movies detailing hard workers st...
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Film Critic of the Week: Matt Prigge
Miraculously juggling graduate school at NYU and a job as the residential film critic for Metro US, Matt Prigge is truly a wonder. That he's able to produce as much as he does, at the level of quality that he does, is something to marvel and admire. Somehow Ma...
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10 Movies That Induced Childhood Trauma
I like being scared.
I grew up on horror movies, which isn't to say they didn't do some form of psychological damage to me. I'm sure that we've all seen movies as children that traumatized us in one form or another. Whether it's the supernatural or the seem...
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