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My Five Most Anticipated Films for Awards Season
Predicting the movies that you will like is (let’s be honest) really, really fun. You take little details that you know about a movie and you find yourself excited beyond logic. Here are the upcoming films that have me most excited.
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An Appreciation – The Wild Bunch
“Let’s go.” – Pike Bishop Two simple words, but to the men of Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969), it means so much more. To them, it means taking a stand, helping one of their own in desperate need. And, most importantly, it means that…
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Bird Watching – Ten Awesome Films by Women to Stream Right Now
I very much believe it is the duty of a true film fan to look around on a regular basis and make sure that the films you’re consuming represent a variety of voices. It is, obviously, one of the reasons I write this column. In…
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For the Ladies – The Hard Way (1943)
Heterosexual romance often takes center stage in movies targeted to the ladies, but can also take a back seat to a more central female relationship. Portrayals of friendship are an important part of the women’s picture, but so are depictions of rivalry and duplicity. Add…
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An Appreciation – Rear Window
If someone who has never seen a Hitchcock film asked me to recommend the one they should see first, I would pick Rear Window (1954). Not only is it highly entertaining and full of well-developed suspense, but it also incorporates everything that made Alfred Hitchcock…
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Bird Watching – Considering the Greatest-Ever Films By Women
In the wake of last week’s release of the Sight & Sound list of the Greatest Films of All Time for 2012—a list that comes out once a decade, and is generated by collecting the opinions of hundreds of film critics—a conversation cropped up about…
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Double Feature Showdown – Rock Hudson Vs. Cary Grant
In the 1960s, Doris Day made several movies that are often referred to as “sex comedies.” Relatively tame compared to what we see now, they were still very forthright in their discussion of sex and the single girl. There comes a point in each movie…
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MacGuffin Film Therapy #2
Spencer and Allen are joined by Aaron Mason (The Grapes of Rad) and Aaron Roden (The Air-Raid Podcast) to continue their film therapy. Topics include: issues with Batman, what constitutes a problem in movies, fanboy reactions, spoilers in the internet age, language on television, cable…
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