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MacGuffin Roundtable #19 – Holiday
The MacGuffin crew discuss Holiday, from director George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn & Cary Grant. This roundtable features special guest Aaron Mason from The Grapes of Rad. This episode can be played online via the flash player below or it can be downloaded from…
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For the Ladies – All That Heaven Allows
I’ve been a big fan of women’s pictures of the thirties, forties, and fifties since the first moment I saw The Women (1939) by George Cukor when I was a kid. Films about the lives of women appealed to me, not just because I would…
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Bird Watching – The Success of Aline Brosh McKenna
It’s often much more difficult to evaluate a screenwriter’s career than that of a director or an actor. Sure, movies are always collaborative—the actor hopes the director and editor choose good takes, the director hopes the producer doesn’t insist on modifying their vision, etc, etc—but…
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MacGuffin Roundtable #18 – Metropolitan
The MacGuffin crew discuss Metropolitan, from director Whit Stillman and starring Edward Clements & Carolyn Farina. This episode can be played online via the flash player below or it can be downloaded from here. It is available on iTunes and Stitcher.
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What We’re Watching – 12/14/11
Last Man Standing Much of my adolescent movie-watching years were spent during Bruce Willis’s tough guy box office reign. Films like Die Hard, The Last Boy Scout, and even the rather disappointing Striking Distance were top priority for my film watching time. When the film…
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What We’re Watching – 12/7/2011
The Muppets: So, there’s a new Muppet movie. You may have heard of it; it’s called The Muppets. I LOVE The Muppet Show, but the only Muppet movie I have every really cared for is Muppets From Space. (I am fully aware that this is…
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An Appreciation – On the Waterfront
“…I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am” Perhaps no other name in film acting is equated to that of an icon quite like Marlon Brando. He has been referenced and pointed to countless times, and his practice of the…
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