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Top 10 of 2011 – Brandi’s Picks
I think Top 10 lists are fun. Many critics write beleaguered sorts of “I don’t really want to be doing this and it’s stupid and rankings are meaningless” disclaimers at the beginning of their lists. Ugh. Look, it should go without saying that any list…
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An Appreciation – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
No other genre evokes a sense of place better than the western. You have vast rolling hills, expansive barren deserts, horses, hats and pistols, and sleepy towns where sheriffs and robbers shoot it out to the death. It’s a world long since passed, where those…
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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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