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For the Ladies (Special Whitney Edition) – Waiting to Exhale
With the passing of Whitney Houston, I thought we could journey back to 1995 and discuss a more modern women’s film, Waiting to Exhale. I tend to focus on women’s pictures of earlier decades simply because the films marketed towards women during the ’30s, ’40s,…
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Convention Coverage – Emerald City Comicon 2012
The MacGuffin covers Emerald City ComiCon 2012. We are joined by a series of guests to talk con highlights, web series, and podcasting. Starting off by catching up with Aaron Roden from Air-Raid, we share some con experiences. Then we speak to members of JourneyQuest, The Collectibles,…
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Bird Watching – Constance Marks’s “Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey”
Though there was a resurgence of vocal Muppet devotion with the release of last year’s film The Muppets, one can’t really call that a “comeback.” Pretty much everyone I know has always loved the whole spectrum of Jim Henson’s creations, and millions upon millions of…
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Emerald City ComiCon 2012 – Revenge of the Nerd
I’ve only been to Seattle’s Emerald City ComiCon (ECCC) a few times, but from my point of view, this was clearly the biggest that I’ve seen so far. A convention that celebrates comic books, video games, sci-fi film and television, and just about everything within…
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Underappreciated Film – Bugsy
Barry Levinson’s 1991 film Bugsy being close to forgotten is somewhat believable when you look at some of the other movies that came out that year: JFK, Thelma & Louise, The Silence of the Lambs, Beauty and the Beast, and Prince of Tides, to name…
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An Analysis – The Chief Offenses Against Good Comedy
Year in and year out, whenever I am revising my worst-of list, I usually notice that the majority of the filth is made up of someone’s poor definition of comedy. Though I certainly have a standard for what I consider to be a good movie,…
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Double Feature Showdown – A Stolen Life vs. Dead Ringer
Some movies beg to be compared; others demand to go mano-a-mano. Who am I to resist this challenge? It turns out Bette Davis made not one, but two, movies where she plays twins: A Stolen Life and Dead Ringer. In both movies, one twin dies…
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An Appreciation – L.A. Confidential
“Off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush.” So says reporter Sid Hudgens (Danny DeVito) at the end each of his articles in the tabloid paper Hush-Hush. While Sid works as a supporting character in Curtis Hanson’s masterful crime drama L.A. Confidential (1997), his…
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